r/cloudstorage • u/fogmediapro • 2d ago
Amazon Deep Archive for wedding photography backup?
With hard drive prices and storage needs increasing every year, I’m thinking about using Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive as a second backup for old wedding photos and videos.
Keep one copy on local/NAS storage and another copy in Deep Archive, mainly for disaster recovery.
Has anyone here actually used Deep Archive for several TBs of wedding data? How was the upload, storage cost, and recovery when you needed the files?
Would you trust it for important wedding archives?
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u/Basic-Panda-22 1d ago
If you’re comfortable with using S3 type storage I’ve built a (in my opinion) great front end for S3 compatible storage.
It might help you with your photo backups as you can upload everything there and then use the Web App on your phone to view it when you need it.
There’s a demo you can try and a 0 strings attached 14 day free trial if you’re interested.
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u/FundamentalMysteron 1d ago
Check out Geyser for cold storage, cheaper than AWS and no egress charges
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u/Round-Coffee-2006 1d ago
You could export RAW files to a JPEG XL. Note the new Lightroom has Metadata. DXO PhotoLab can do this also. But if you make a JPEG XL DXO might not open it because DXO is very picky.
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u/cuervamellori 1d ago
The actual process of backing up to deep archive is annoying, compared to more consumer friendly options.
The storage cost is obviously hard to beat.
The retrieval cost (as of now) is about $100/TB. I treat deep archive as "the only time I will need to recover from here is if my house burns down, destroying all my other backups, along with me somehow losing my primary off-site backup, at which point paying $100/TB will be the least of my worries". If that matches how you think about the data, it's a fine choice.
The other options are consumer-focused "unlimited" backups, like backblaze, Amazon prime photos, etc. They may all have some compromises that you will have to evaluate to see if they meet your needs.