Photo Backups on/offsite...

DHR · 17 Jul 2016 at 09:24

Firstly I'm not a huge photographer I do however had loads of photos mainly taken on my iPhone. I'm a Canon EOS-M user too so do have some higher resolution files.

I back the photos from my camera up to a local qnap then if I make the effort onto Google storage via Picassa. My iPhone backs up to iCloud, but I've hit to storage limit on both now so am looking at a longer term solution without paying a fortune. I have prime and heard that they offer some form of photo storage in with that but I'm not sure exactly what?

Has anyone set something up with a qnap, ideally I just want to dump my photos to that and have them sync up somewhere periodically? Automation and ease is the aim of the game here!

Columbo · 17 Jul 2016 at 20:22

If you have Prime don't bother looking elsewhere. We use it for our business and its brilliant. We convert all our RAW files to DNG prior to uploading though as it saves around 2/3's of the upload time.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos

DHR · 17 Jul 2016 at 21:31

Awesome thanks, are there any nifty automation tricks I can do to get them uploading to Amazon automatically from the qnap?

Genoma · 18 Jul 2016 at 12:45

If you have a windows machine, you can install SyncBackPro on it, to pull the files off the qnap and upload to Prime every night, works a treat as it has amazon integration, super simple.

Genoma · 18 Jul 2016 at 12:50

Columbo said:
If you have Prime don't bother looking elsewhere. We use it for our business and its brilliant. We convert all our RAW files to DNG prior to uploading though as it saves around 2/3's of the upload time.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos

Interesting, is that because the DNGs are non-lossy compressed?

I quite like keeping the RAW files + XMPs, as if I edit the file, there is only a small xmp file to be re-uploaded.