Where do you upload your photos to?

dean_ham

dean_ham

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Hi guys think i need to start backing up my photos on to the internet just incase both hard drives fail or my house burns down :/ dont fancy losing all my photos.

Havent got a massive collection of photos maybe 1000-2000 but would like to be able to upload to somewhere and not to reduce the resolution or anything, and if possible keep the account forever and not worrying about swapping the photos over to a different server for example.

Dont mind paying a fee per year but obviously if i can get it for free then why not.

Any suggestions, what do you guys use?
 
i used to have a fotki account for backing up online. ftp to and from.

unfortunately flickr doesnt let you pull the images back down again easily once theyre uploaded.
 
neil_g said:
i used to have a fotki account for backing up online. ftp to and from.

unfortunately flickr doesnt let you pull the images back down again easily once theyre uploaded.
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Flickr is easy to pull images from, the api is easy, and if you use a popular cms/blog software like wordpress for example there are loads of plugins to achieve it. nearly all the popular cms packages have a flickr plugin or gallery type function to achieve it. I would go down the domain route myself, you have plenty of options if you do, monthly costs are approx £3 nowadays for a decent package, and a flickr pro account is something like £15 or free if you have top BT broadband package
 
Amazon S3 + Jungle Drive!

backs up all my stuff at 3am every morning (incremental) and they charge you only for what you use...

I back up about 20gig and it costs not far over £1 a month and its super reliable :) I have never been good at manually backing stuff up so i just let Jungle Disk do the work :)

EDIT: obviously this is for any kind of data backup, if you want online galleries then Flikr is one of the really popular ones, personally i've never been sure on the idea since you have to convert stuff down to a relatively small jpeg and i can't really be bothered to convert everything... if there was an online service that took raw files and stored them in the background but generated jpegs for viewing that would be amazing :)
 
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3dcandy said:
Flickr is easy to pull images from, the api is easy, and if you use a popular cms/blog software like wordpress for example there are loads of plugins to achieve it. nearly all the popular cms packages have a flickr plugin or gallery type function to achieve it.
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so what if you dont have CMS/blogging? FTP would be loads better but flickr dont seem too keen on implementing it (although i believe the option was there in the past)
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Flickr.

Quick and easy.
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do you step down to a reasonable web-size for each and every photo or is there a quicker way? maybe you batch process them in photoshop?

(also out of interest, can you store a full-res version on flikr should you so wish?)
 
MuGeN said:
do you step down to a reasonable web-size for each and every photo or is there a quicker way? maybe you batch process them in photoshop?

(also out of interest, can you store a full-res version on flikr should you so wish?)
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As you publish photos, they're compressed and resized by Flickr (if necessary) in the following sizes:
75x75 pixels
100 pixels (on the longest side)
240 pixels
500 pixels
Large (which will be 1024 pixels if it exceeds that length)
The original size (if you have a pro account)
 
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