How do you back up/archive your photos?

booyaka · 9 Nov 2012 at 16:26

Phate said:
Floppy disk drive.

i did lol!

Sync to server from main pc - need to sort out offsite storage but with 50gb or so to upload and a rubbish sky upload speed it might take some time to do!

Mp4 · 10 Nov 2012 at 19:06

Never heard of this CrashPlan! Which one is the bes to look out for?

a1ex2001 · 12 Nov 2012 at 12:44

HP Microserver and do a weekly backup to an external drive that lives in my office draw at work.

Zero Pope · 12 Nov 2012 at 13:00

External HDD. I'm looking to get Light Room soon so will back up the catalogues for that as well once I have it.

K.C. Leblanc · 12 Nov 2012 at 14:13

Mp4 said:
Never heard of this CrashPlan! Which one is the bes to look out for?

I use the plus unlimited. The only issue if the initial upload will take a long time.

https://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl#single-plan

At The Gates · 13 Nov 2012 at 21:54

Another vote for Crashplan here.

SickAsAParrot · 14 Nov 2012 at 09:31

We have 2 computers at home and all the photos are copied onto both, as well as an external hard disk. When I get a DVD's worth of data I blow a hard copy and store it away in the 'backups of things' case.

GSXRMovistar · 15 Nov 2012 at 09:49

SynKron regularly backs up my Photos folders on my mac (including Lightroom catalogues/settings) to my home server (which is replicated via multi disks) but more importantly I also backup adhoc to removable drives (encrypted) which I take out of the house and leave at work. Use two separate disks and cycle then to ensure there’s never a point where all backups are in the same location.

Oh and if using encryption don't forget to make sure the key/password is also held offsite.

Source CF cards are only formatted once I know there’s at least two copies elsewhere.

Schizo · 15 Nov 2012 at 09:55

K.C. Leblanc said:
Online backup to crash plan. The main issues was it took almost a month to do the initial backup. Once that was out of the way it's manageable.

I also backup to a second internal hard drive.

same here.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 15 Nov 2012 at 11:01

Phate said:
Floppy disk drive.

How many floppies per 1 Mark III image?

And seeing as no one replied to my thread this is how I am going to store my work

King Damager · 15 Nov 2012 at 12:47

You're using Vertex drives? I wouldn't trust many SSD's with my data (nevermind a OCZ one...)

kd

lemonade · 15 Nov 2012 at 12:57

Which packages are you guys on with CrashPlan? Do they take ownership of your content like Dropbox etc.

At The Gates · 15 Nov 2012 at 13:10

I use Crashplan+ Unlimited. Basically because i want a traditional backup solution, not a system like Dropbox or SkyDrive. Backing up to DVDs, external drives etc is all good and well, but what if you have a fire or get burgled? Right now i have all my photos on my laptop, and i use Crashplan to back that up to an external drive and Crashplan online.

Not sure what you mean by ownership of content.

shine · 15 Nov 2012 at 13:12

I backup to external disk (Time Machine) and Amazon S3 via Arq (hourly delta occurs automatically whenever I am logged into my computer).

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 15 Nov 2012 at 15:13

King Damager said:
You're using Vertex drives? I wouldn't trust many SSD's with my data (nevermind a OCZ one...)

kd

Nah not yet. Its just a concept idea but no one really give me any feedback on it. Its part of my ummm and arrs when it comes to SSD because I dont know that much about them.

It would only act as a rapid access drive with a master archive sitting on a huge mechanical HDD array and combination of geo redundancy media.

apeksdiver · 15 Nov 2012 at 15:16

External HDD and BluRay