I have till 8 feb to extricate myself from google for email and storage.

I have a domain name.
I'm expecting to use fastmail for mail
then maybe try out object store with catalyst cloud.
I'll need to hone down to just the essentials for backups but that's fine.
i have a NAS for backups and a blu-ray 5 1/2 drive sitting here in box.

@pearofdoom just watch out for the GB cost if you ever need to restore something.

@alex yeah this table is brutal!

@pearofdoom not just restores don't forget, if you have anything sensible that validates your backups at the remote location you'll get stung for that too.

@alex
ugh.
i do have a bastion vm there so that can go under the region local cost but seriously this is why I was paying for goog storage for so long

@pearofdoom there is ASI, but I've not used them and the lower cost storage is "cold" and also don't know if they care about smaller users. Was the only other one I came across when I was looking (like $15/TB for hot, $5/TB for cold, no egress or api charges)

@alex it's soo cooked that going to pbtech to buy an rpi and stuffing it at mum and dad's house is sounding better and better.

@pearofdoom oh 100% this is the best way if you can imo.

I think it's also the sort of thing where "like minded" folks could help each other out what with full encryption these days and UFB. Backup swaps used to be more of a thing I feel. Though that was when I used to swap tapes with a friend back in the UK to keep offsite backups.

I was a bit odd growing up maybe

@alex okay gotta see how much ~$170/y goes as hardware
which is the 2tb goog plan i'm while only using (~600GB)

@pearofdoom a 2TB Spinning rust is about $120 these days.

@alex I litteraly have a spare pi5 sitting on the hobby electronics desk behind me.......
I sense a plan hatching!

@pearofdoom like purely from a "I know where this is" thing it's handy but also it has another often overlooked upside.

If things really go to shit, you can probably travel and get the Pi/HDD/etc. and bring it home to do a faster restore than over the internet ever would likely be.

@pearofdoom @alex I'm running almost this exact setup with Pi4s. Happy to discuss & learn from each other

immich has superceded google photos for me.
google doesn't support drive desktop app on linux so their sync fabric is no longer of use.
I'm wanting to disassociate from US based big tech.

@pearofdoom made all the harder by them not allowing the complete removal of their "upload by default Photos app" (least on Apple devices). Can only "Remove from Home Screen"

They need to be forced to allow you to use another Photos app as the default.

@Phil_Tanner @pearofdoom @alex Pretty close to my set-up.
Although I use a Pi4 for it, because a 5 is overkill

@Firesphere @Phil_Tanner @alex pi5 is currently my spare and the parents were keen to get a dns ad block setup ASAP

@pearofdoom @Firesphere @Phil_Tanner win win

@alex @pearofdoom @Phil_Tanner I run them separately, but for no good reason.
I personally prefer Wireguard-UI or something like that for a WG setup, instead of PiVPN, but either way, it's not too complex, and a Pi4 can easily handle wg/pi-hole/nas on a single device.

4tb usb hdd acquired.
now which OS to flash on this pi 5?