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Using Proton Drive and/or self-hosting for sensitive data—for the somewhat tech-savvy, buying a Synology NAS makes this pretty straightforward (though it's not open-source). There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube and the web that show you how to easily set up a personal or family cloud backup, and their photos app works great for photo backups. This would also allow people to self-host their own NextCloud instance on it.
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QnA 10mo ago

Can confirm that Proton drive is excellent. as is the rest of their suite tbh.

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Ava 10mo ago

I agree. Though, it is still a bit limited in the amount of cloud storage space they offer—my phone alone is 1TB—so for many, it is still not optimal to use for ongoing device and phone backups. Hopefully, Proton will see this recent Apple debacle as an opportunity to increase the storage space included in their premium accounts and release a photos app—making it an easier jump for most people.

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QnA 10mo ago

Yeah the price more than doubles if you want to jump to 3GB plan.

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QnA 10mo ago

*TB

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Ava 10mo ago

Indeed. I'm on the Business plan and it's still not economical for full device/photo archive backups. I do like the fact that they automatically increase drive space every year I stay with them, though. If they play their cards right and dramatically increase their storage space, this event really could be their Gmail triumph over Yahoo Mail moment.