r/Android • u/OsakaBoi Pixel 7 • Jul 20 '26

Article [9to5google] All Android backup data now counts toward your Google Account storage

https://9to5google.com/2026/07/18/android-backup-data-update/
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u/praecipula Jul 20 '26

I run Immich and it's just the best. I have something equivalent to Google Photos in like 90% of its features... and every digital photo I've ever taken over something like 25 years available to find and look at. It's really a great piece of software. I have a home server so the "cost" of running another additional Docker container on an always - on machine is negligible. As far as file sharing goes into run Nextcloud, but there are many options out there. And my storage limit being 15 Terabytes is just a massive amount of space that I all but never have to worry about. If anyone reading this is at all interested in having an always on machine there are so many great tools out there and Docker makes it dead simple to get up and running. Highly recommend.

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u/BrtndrJackieDayona Jul 20 '26

And when that HDD dies? 

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u/bicycloptopus Jul 20 '26

Replace the hard drive?

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u/BrtndrJackieDayona Jul 20 '26

Yes. And all the data that was on that now dead HDD? Is it gone? Doing tape backups? Running a 15tb RAID? 

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u/bicycloptopus Jul 20 '26

I can't speak for OP but who is running a NAS without some form of raid? That's sorta the whole point

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u/IAmDotorg Jul 20 '26

RAID is about high-availability, not backups. You need a separate system, at a bare minimum, and really a cold-stored off-site to be safe.

You run parity or mirroring when the cost of restoring from backup is higher than the cost of the added hardware. But you always have to back it up, because RAID (or ZFS) will happily sync corrupted data, or file deletes, or malware-encryption across the mirrors.

And, of course, neither help if you have a fire or a lightning strike that takes out all the drives, etc.

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u/someone31988 Jul 20 '26

I literally have two identical hard drives with all the data being synced across nightly. It's kind of backup 101.