backups?

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I have been thinking about what is the best way to backup my photos and was wondering what methods or websites do you guys use?

I was thinking about useing windows 7 backup and useing it to back my images up onto another drive...
 
Photos are store on External USB (important part is that it is NOT in the same physical drive as the OS).

So...external USB (photos) --->back up to ---> Drobo (3 x 2TB) via wifi (5Ghz)

The result is this



The backup is done daily, and only upload what has been added. In fact it is set to mirror my "Photography Folder" So if I delete a photo in my USB drive, it removes it from the Drobo. I can set it differently so that it only adds and never delete of course.

The Drobo obviously back up that folder within itself. The result is that if my USB drive dies, I have an up to date copy in my Drobo. If one of my drives in my Drobo dies I just replace a drive. If my Drobo dies I still have my USB.

This solution is way beyond most people do, and it isn't cheap, £500 for the Drobo + drives (£200 for 3 x 2TB). And I got an Apple Time Capsule (£240) so I can back up the OS externally (where it houses my .ircat file), and to provide me with the 5Ghz wifi needed for the wireless backup to be quick enough to be worthwhile.

* someone always always say "but if you get robbed or house gets burnt down you lose everything". True, but that's way beyond what the OP is asking. That's why I plan to get a portable drive and do weekly backup and keep that in the office 70miles away.
 
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from memory card ->
Synology DS1010+ 5x 2tb drives in RAID5 (main working copies for LR) ->
USB2 hard drives taken offsite + copies to Blu-Ray media taken off site

i copy manually using my desktop connected via gigabit to the NAS but you can use something like allway sync or robocopy etc etc to keep both copies the same.

but yes as long as you have 2 copies over 2 separate devices you cant go far wrong, unless something like raymond mentions (fire, theft, flood etc) should happen.
 
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but what if someone breaks in to your house, pinches you PC and storage and your office keys ;)

There is always online storage as alternative or in addition to the above.
 
latercomer2 said:
but what if someone breaks in to your house, pinches you PC and storage and your office keys ;)

There is always online storage as alternative or in addition to the above.
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What if an EMP gets dropped on your face :p

p.s. there are no keys to the office. I have a swipe card :p
 
Raymond Lin said:
yup, try uploading 670G lol
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and should the worst happen how long is that going to take to download.. especially if your ISP should throttle and/or cap your data.

until i can get 20+mb up AND down and the cost of storing TB's is reasonable its a non-starter for me personally.
 
Sounds like i need to get myself a 2 or 4bay nas then lol i have a 2bay nas but it almost full, do you have software that will auto back up the folder to a usb drive and to a nas? for windows and a mac?
 
I have a Western Digital MyWorldBook Network Drive. It's always on and backs up selected files on my main PC and 3 other laptops (wife, daughters) continously. Cost was about £150 for 1.5TB but thnk they're cheaper now.
 
I always use RAID1 in my PCs so I'm protected against a single drive failure. I do a full PC image once a month to a 1GB eSATA external drive. I've got six of these and, at the moment, each image is <500GB so I've got a year's data retention.

I also take differential backups to DVD twice a week on a seven-week cycle.

Finally, I have a QNAP NAS with two 1.5GB HDDs in RAID1 to which I mirror my data partition intermittently. Or I would if it hadn't dumped its firmware and needed reflashing - a Linux job for which I need some help.

I really should keep some of the drive images elsewhere in case of fire or theft but apart from that I'm happy.
 
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