data backup
Hi Guys :),
I went through all the talks pages the other day but was not able to spot the following subject:
How do you store/ backup your data?
I’m running out of a space at my current WD disc (My Passport) and was about to purchase another one. The seller dragged my attention to the WD cloud storage solution – have you ever used it? Or any other cloud storage? Or you’d rather stick with the hard drives? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this matter.
Thanks and have a great day!
Paweł Kadysz I use WD My Book dor my backups which I try to make every month. I used 1 of 3TB available so I have a lot of space left. But a backup in the cloud is not that bad idea.
Take a look at Amazon Glacier: aws.amazon.com/glacier - it looks like a perfect solution and for my 1TB of backup it would only cost $4/mo. I think I'm going to try it.
There's also Amazon Cloud Drive which is simpler to use and has unlimited storage for $59.99: amazon.com/clouddrive
jokele I think I would take clouddrive. For 1TB it's not so much more expensive but the files are easier to download and without additional costs. I just consider myself what I take :)
Marcin N Woźniak
Google Photos.
Free with photos up to 16mpx (compressed lossless) and video in fullHD.
If you want store photos in full size without compression, then its free up to 15GB (Google Drive free space), next 100GB cost about $2.
And you have nice builtin albums, simple correction and few more suprises :)
Romanos Kalamatianos I use this free service to backup my photos photos.shutterfly.com and if you need to upload videos you need to pay a subscription.
Richard Morwood AWS S3. I wrote a little file uploader, and can tag photos for searching later. Only problem is when uploading RAW it doesn't have a preview image, so folder structure is rather important. I go with the format YYYYMMDD_{small_description}
jokele I have two Synology NAS (Network Attached Storage). The first is for my daily use. I backup my photos to this NAS and all my documents are stored on it. My photos are also on SSDs on my desktop PC, so I can edit them faster with Lightroom. The second NAS boots every night and gets all the new files from the first NAS. There the data are archived for six months. I have made my own backup scripts with rsync and rsnapshot. So I'm pretty well protected against accidental deletion and hardware errors. I'm just testing if I store my important data (encrypted) to a provider, such as Amazon Drive. Call me paranoid ;-)
Instead of using own scripts, Synology delivers backup tools with the devices. But I wouldn't depend on these programs.
Satoshi T Wow its very systematic!
Ian Prince There are just so many ways one can lose photos: hard drive failures, accidental deletion, cloud providers accounts getting closed, fire, theft, ransomware, etc etc.... Backups that allow me to sleep well at night need to be (1) redundant (2) automatic and (3) tested. Here's how I do it: my photos get ingested into my 128Gb iPad just after they are taken. From there they are automatically uploaded to iCloud and OneDrive (never trust just one cloud provider). My OneDrive photos gets automatically synced to my Synology NAS at home and my iCloud photos automatically synced to an external disk in my office (always have at least two physical copies in two separate locations). Once a year I export my photos from iCloud to Camera Bit's Photo Mechanic to be correctly named and classified. From there they are uploaded to my unlimited SmugMug account which becomes my long-term archive reference. I of course export from SmugMug to external disks every year just to be on the safe side :) Not the cheapest of set-ups, but aren't photos priceless?
Paweł Kadysz Sounds like a lot of work.
Ian Prince Took a while to set up, but everything is automated and works in the background, except the yearly archive to Smugmug.
tania Sounds like hell.... all that work
especially for me at this right moment (had only 4.74 Go left yesterday on my computer ;)
Ian Prince Hell is losing all you photo's ;)
tania Disaster... every evening I wonder if I'm posting my last photo...
Ian Prince Of course the ultimate backup is to print and frame your photos for your friends and family :) Well, the good ones at least ;)
Daniel Zaleski I have pursued this topic personally for two years now. For some time, I had photos on my notebook and have used 2 external HDDs in two different locations. As I finish my house refurbishment, I just bought Synology 4-bay station and 2x 6TB WD RED drives. I will keep using the external HDDs and will copy my files 1/quarter (I know it is not enough). My goal would be to get one more Synology station with 1-2 HDDs and put it in different location (my brother's flat or office). I am not that eager to use the cloud services so far ...
Ian Prince And it's quite easy to set up the two Synologys to back each other up over the internet :)
Piotr Saweczko I use Synology NAS server in my home, which is also archived on Amazon Cloud Drive.
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Satoshi T Hi dothy :) Once I used 2 pairs of striping disks for pursuing speed. A bad coincidence occurred, the disks on the same side of the pair of stripe failed at the same time, and I lost a lot of pictures. It is better to make the availability as high as possible than speed if you build RAID. Now I am editing photos with a simple mirror disks and backing up the LightRoom DNG files to Amazon Cloud Drive.