Anyone use Flickr for photo archive?

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I really like Flickr, although I don't use it as much as I should. I noticed recently that you now get a whopping free 1TB storage.

My backup solution up until now has been Dropbox, due to me amassing 48GB free storage. However that has now run out, so I'm stuck with 7GB. I think I have about 38GB of photos including RAWs and everything. Not much, I know. My photography has taken quite the back seat in the last few years :( But I do want to take care of what I have.

My only issue with Flickr is that it doesn't seem to accept RAW? Is there any sort of workaround? I have Lightroom but I really want to keep things as easy as possible. At the moment my root 'photos' folder sits in my Dropbox so everything gets sync'd without me needing to think about it. Basically I don't want to have to export a separate file for Flickr or any other backup.

My other options is ditching Dropbox entirely (even though 7GB is enough for my Docs) and paying £1.99/month for Google Drive 100GB which will do me well enough for everything and (I presume) work very similarly to Dropbox.

Any thoughts? :)

tldr; <7GB Documents, <40GB photos, do I use Google Drive, Dropbox or Flickr, or a combination of both? Free is good :p
 
Tbh if you really want to safeguard your photos then it's not really worth trying to circumvent any rules that Flickr has about uploading RAW files :P

Find a cheap filehost from a company that won't disappear over night like you've done and start uploading!

That or buy a NAS and copy all your files and then store it at your parents place or something so you can sync across any new photos you get :)
 
Oh I didn't mean to circumvent any rules, just wondering if anyone has found a good workflow that sorts of gets round it. I guess exporting un-processed JPEGs automatically or something and then uploading them.
 
If you're going to upload a JPG of any kind then it might as well be processed since reprocessing a jpg later probably wont be great?

In the grand scale of things, you're definitely better off looking for a solution that you pay for if you value what's being backed up. Whether it's a hosted/cloud solution or one of your own making is another matter :)

You can create your own off-site backups with a NAS if you've got somewhere else to keep it. Even if you just keep the NAS in your shed hidden away somewhere you should at least be protected from fire burning down your house but the NAS might not last years and years in that kind of environment.
 
Put your RAWs onto another External Hard drive..Put your Jpgs on Flickr or Zenfolio or Onedrive or whatever takes your fancy. Best bet is to BackUp all images (raw/Tiff/Jpg to an External drive or two)
 
I never wanted a NAS! Maybe in the future for bluray rips and other media, but I have all that on a RaspberryPi for now.

I've been doing some digging around with Google drive and it seems they don't support symlinks, which means you have to put all your folder 'inside' the Google Drive folder. That's a bit tedious s I want to back up things from a variety of places. Photos from my 'media' drive, Documents from my C: drive etc. What a shame Dropbox don't do a 100GB package, the jump from a free subscription to £7.99 is too much. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that. £1.99/month for 100GB is perfect on Google, I just need to figure out if I can make it work.

EDIT: In fact I have backed up my photos to my RPi drive before, just never set up anything automated. Maybe that's something to look into when I've moved house. I do fancy something in 'the cloud' though, that I don't have to worry about.
 
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