Review my devised backup solution.

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Ive thought long and hard about this backup solution but would like a few critical eyes on it

in lightroom i have two 'components i need backing up

catalog
DNG files

i think i only need the DNGs but would like the catalog too as it is no hassle


i have two drives in my pc
2x250GB SSD RAID 0
2TB HDD

i keep the catalog on my SSD RAID0 partition for use
i backup my catalog using Lightroom to the HDD
and i keep the DNGs on the HDD

both will be backed up to my on site microserver

periodically i will backup the HDD to an external HDD and take this to work as an off site backup.
(this contains catalog backups and DNGs themselves

does this give me a

working copy
on site backup - for such things as dead drives
off site backup - for such disasters as power spikes/fire etc

of absolutely everything i need?

 

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I think the cloud storage solutions are are all too small for raw files.
I may be able to keep the exported DNGs of my favourite pics in there

I have just bought a Seagate 4tb external drive to keep at home and I'm hoping to use the 200gb of storage in there for this + catalog.

Have no idea how many real keepers I have. Maybe I need to be more ruthless and only keep ones I feel are good enough to put on Flickr.

 

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Didn't realise amazon prime is unlimited. That is good. I'll probably take that up if my 200gb isn't enough.

May add a raid 1 as it would save some hassle of having to do anything if one drive failed

 

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The raid0 I have on my ssds is no bother.

I've actually never had a hdd fail and even if it does it takes about an hour to restore from microserver backup.
Feel the increased read and write speed of raid 0 ssds is more than worth risk of unlikely failure

I will have 4 copies of everything

1 on cloud
1 on my off site drive
1 on local machine (DNGs on hdd catalog on ssd raid0)
1 on micro server

For all 4 to be lost would be very very unlikely I feel

Thought about putting DNGs in ssd but appears not worth it

 

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Seems most have a similar set up

I will have to look at this at this amazon thing.
So you can't just drop files in a folder?

Hopefully I won't fill up 200gb that I have for 2 years that soon. As I'm only putting the best in there

 

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My 4tb external hard drive and 200gb one drive is here.
I know what I'll be doing tonight. Ugh

 

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thanks, that is good to know. Do you know if you can upload video files too? Good quite a lot of footage from my dslr now

Video isn't included. Imagine the abuse of the system that would generate.
Going to go with my one drive until it expires

Hope amazon prime includes DNG as a recognised picture type