What backup method does everyone use?

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Howdy,

What backup method does everyone use?

The last few weeks i've been trying to sort out my messy backup situation.

I have 4 external drive and am looking at a back solution to cut down on the drives i have on my floor+ plug sockets

C: - So far i have my C: - with all apps and stuff on desktop.
2TB - 1.81 - Almost full i tend to drag all final jpgs to this drive.
4TB - 3.63 all LR catalogues,images, C: image to backup from.
4TB - 3.63 a clone of LR catalogue,images.

People have said for me to get offsite backup, looking at Crashplan at the moment.

Also been said about Microserver or Synology DiskStation DS215j 2 Bay Desktop Network Attached Storage.

Been racking my brain out over this and its not a backup method i know but not sure if my drives will fail at any time etc. This will backup i hope all of my 10TB(ish) that i do have eventually.

OR just a simple 6TB drive with a backup of everything and keep at friends/parents.
 
Home server backs up all the laptops and PCs, all files are mirrored using drivebender. All the important stuff is copied to onedrive.
 
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I keep all my images on my NAS which has 2x3TB WD Red drives in raid 1. The NAS is backed up to a 1.5TB external drive every Friday!
 
I've currently got two HP micro servers both configured with 4x4TB HDD's. One is at my house & the other is at my parents. The local microserver also has an LTO-6 drive connected

My workstation is backed up to the local microserver overnight, a daily tape backup is then taken.

The micro server is also set to replicate it's data over SSH to the other microserver that sits at my parents house (both houses have an 80/20 Mb/s FTTC connection)
 
BattFink said:
The micro server is also set to replicate it's data over SSH to the other microserver that sits at my parents house (both houses have an 80/20 Mb/s FTTC connection)
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I keep threatening to do something like that to give me an ongoing off-site backup.
 
john_s said:
I keep threatening to do something like that to give me an ongoing off-site backup.
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Touch wood haven't needed to call on it yet... but would always recommend some form of off-site backup (a monthly copy to an external HDD would probably suffice)
 
I have a Cron job that runs a simple bash script using rsync to copy data to an external drive. I also occasionally will tarball the entire drive onto another.
 
I have a Microserver with Win8.1.

1x120gb SSD - System disk backup up via image with EaseUS

2x3TB WD Red's Raid1 - Everything stored on them.

2x1TB WD something Raid1 - Stores compressed backups of documents\photos from the Reds and 1 monthly images of system drives from 3 computers via EaseUS.

1TB Onedrive - Stores everything important\not illegal

Have lost data before, dont plan on losing it again.
 
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I keep local copies on my main PC's.

This is then periodically backed up to my storage server. 7x 2TB WD SE in RAID 5, yeah I know 5 is not a wise choice but I need the space more than the redundancy.

This is then also duplicated onto 3x separate porable 1TB hard disks.

Once I fill 1TB it will get hived off onto a duplicate pair of LTO5 tapes using LTFS. I obviously don't take enough pictures as my library is currently only 222GB and that contains the last 10 years of RAW images.
 
Geez :( well I need to get something done then!

Using Syncback SE at the moment but not sure if its what I need :( but seems to be (backing up) okay at the moment.


For my C: - System/Apps.
I downloaded Macrium but for some reason i can't clone my HDD so spent a morning leaving it on to make an Image & Boot disk.

EaseUS - Looks interesting too!



As for offsite - None :(

Really not sure how to go about it or what i really want to achieve.

Crashplan = £4 a month

Or do i spend £140 on a Microserver or Synology! case and get a few HDD's
 
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All mine are stored on NAS, which I periodically copy to an external drive for a local backup.

The NAS is automatically synced up to Amazon Glacier for my offsite copy.
 
I currently have:

1x 3TB NAS - Backing up constantly via Genie Timeline Pro to 1x 3TB Hard Drive
1 copy of all original Raw files on Hard Drive at work
Lightroom catalogs are stored and used from Google drive, which are backed up locally whenever I close the catalog. (This folder of drive is also monitored and backed up to my online backup too)

Then I also have the 3TB NAS drive backup online with Squirrelsave. Awful speed even on fibre, its been uploading now for 3 months and still has a month remaining. Shouldn't be too bad once its all up to date, but I did go and uploaded every wedding since 2012!
 
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I use a HP Microserver as well,

I have 4 x 4TBs
1 x 4TB is used for Photo's and other essential docs, that is backed up to another of the 4TB Drives every night, and on top of that, I backup everything nightly (or as much as my connection can take) to Crashplan (unlimited backup for $60 a year)..

The other 2 x 4TBs are just for none essential storage.

I used to use RAID (striped and mirrored) until I had a RAID set bugger up one day and lost the lot, so just use simple volumes and schedule backup jobs overnight.
 
:D well at the moment my LR Catalogue comes too 761GB alone (inc images)

I've had the pc on most of the afternoon backing it all up and then notice it had stopped ... ran out of space on the 2TB :(

So now shall re think my backup again. :(


Still not sure about NAS or just spend money on CrashPlan. But £40 a year or save for a NAS.
 
mr tommo said:
I currently have:

1x 3TB NAS - Backing up constantly via Genie Timeline Pro to 1x 3TB Hard Drive
1 copy of all original Raw files on Hard Drive at work
Lightroom catalogs are stored and used from Google drive, which are backed up locally whenever I close the catalog. (This folder of drive is also monitored and backed up to my online backup too)
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Well I had never heard of Genie Timeline before and looks brilliant! So might invest in this as well as EaseUS.

& thats a brilliant idea about the Catalogue to Google!
 
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What performance you getting with the catalogue on Google Drive?? I would have thought that would be terrible?
 
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Not sure how Tommo does it, but I do it in the following way.
Store and use catalogue locally as you normally would. Have backup software scheduled late evening when no one uses internet, to copy and overwrite a copy to the local Google Drive folder. Google Drive then detects change and back's it up online.
 
^ i have just set it to:

Every time LR exits and showed the catalogue to GD(google drive) and it seems to work fine.

As you only backup to GD and not using it off GD it doesn't do much else.

But am slowly backing up the catalogue+images locally.
 
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DS414 NAS with all images on. LR catalogs on local PC.

Everything backed up onto rotated external USB disks with one kept offsite.

We should be getting FTTC soon so I might look at using an offsite service like Amazon glacier along with a local external disk. The synology NAS has a glacier client so that will take seconds to implement (and days to upload the 1st time !)
 
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