which off site cloud backup?

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Hi all,

I have recently been working on my backup workflow.

I want to save my whole LR Folder to a could system but its now hitting over 1TB in size and 30k photos.

I've done a search and a few people use ARQ? and S3?? and Amazon Prime etc

anyone?
 
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I'm personally using Crashplan —*I looked at all sorts of options: Crashplan, BackBlaze, Dropbox, GoogleDrive, Amazon S3, Carbonite, SpyderOak etc.

Crashplan isn't perfect, but it seems to have the best balance of cost, storage and simplicity.
 
I had crash plan for 2 years, in all that time I was unable to upload 100% of my files, scrap that, I don't think I reached even 20% of what I need due to the stupid throttled upload speed.

I uploaded more in one weekend with Amazon (free with my existing prime) than I did all that time with crash plan.
 
Raymond so if i buy Prime, what does that allow you to upload? CR2 etc?

do you have your nas set to backup to amazon etc?
 
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Raymond so if i buy Prime, what does that allow you to upload? CR2 etc?

do you have your nas set to backup to amazon etc?
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Yup, all Image files, including CR2 but I don't because at that point I convert by files to DNG as they have been delivered so alongside the full size JPEG I upload those with DNG as it is a self constained file with my settings retained as opposed to needing to LR catalogue file too. I do it through the browser...there must be a easier and neater way though.
 
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So do you zip the DNG+JPEG for each client as such?

any limit as you know with Amazon? 5GB etc? or all unlimited?

I have been using SyncBack Pro which uploads to cloud services but have heard good about ARQ
 
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I' doing more than just photos so the Prime thing doesn't cut it for me.

I've done 500Gb in a month so it's not the fastest of uploads but it's not impossible. That's not continuous either, I use a laptop and leave the house quite a bit.

I've got 3Tb to upload so I'll let you know how long it takes!
 
What do you use Irish Tom?

All i want to do is have another method if my pc hdd fails (setting up NAS next year)

But want to offsite clients photos etc as well as on my website.
 
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So do you zip the DNG+JPEG for each client as such?

any limit as you know with Amazon? 5GB etc? or all unlimited?

I have been using SyncBack Pro which uploads to cloud services but have heard good about ARQ
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No, just drag the folder into the browser, I have like 20mb up speed, and Amazon uses all of that.

Crash plan it is like 5% of that speed. So for every hour of upload it takes me about a week (as I had to split it up hours at the time when I have the computer on)
 
ummm intresting :) might have to invest shall do more research or if anyone else uses another cloud backup etc comment below :D


and Syncback supports Cloud Drive :) so Prime is/was looking promising

Prime Photos is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use it in connection with a professional photography business or other commercial service.
 
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I use Amazon Cloud Drive and also use Google Apps for business. It's not cheap but it's unlimited and fully saturates my works gigabit net connection (which I occasionally use to seed my data :p). I use SyncBackPro, it's excellent.

I turned my back on Crashplan a while back as it is slow as ****.

I looked in to pretty much all of the solutions out there. I didn't like Glacier, Google Nearline is favourable, but when you start getting up in to the 5TB territory it's a similar price to Google Apps for Business, plus you'll need to add the pull back costs.
 
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Yeah SBP (SyncBackPro) is VERY nifty and worth it!

Google Apps for work.

with unlimited storage and Vault
£6.60

per user per month

Unlimited Storage (or 1 TB per user if fewer than 5 users)


so 1TB ? :P
 
All of my off site goes to S3. So does the office. Even once you are off the free tier, it's incredibly cheap. We add a few gb a month to it, and the cost is next to nothing. It's perhaps a bit more complex to set up, but my NAS pushes the files up each night, and I use CyberDuck to browse and download, all of which is quite simple.
 
bcjames

with S3 if you need the files back what charge is there?
at the moment ill be uploading 1TB and will add no doubt to this in 2016.
Ill be using Syncback pro to upload to S3 if i go down that route.

Wonder how fussy Amazon with their Prime storage (unlimited are...)

I use 1TB dropbox £9.99pm so will ditch that if i can find a safe alternative.
 
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I use a combination of redundant drives and archives on USB.
2x USB storage drive offsite in rotation
The rest goes up to Amazon Cloud with prime sub. My photos are organised into date and month folders by lightroom, so it's easy at the end of the month to add a new folder, drag and drop into Amazon, as others pointed out, it's fast to upload a bunch overnight.

Need to have a look at syncbackpro if it works with s3 and Az cloud!

With prime it's unlimited storage for *photos* but unfortunately videos it doesn't support. I have a few which I'm thinking in moving to S3. XMP edits from lightroom for 30k photos fit nicely in the 5GB you get with prime of other files. (about 1.5GB of xmp files, 209GB or RAWs).
 
SB Pro is very worth the £40
works for TFP/local mirroring and you can set date/time to back everything up.


I would have gone directly with Amazon Prime but the whole T&C is buging the back of my mind.

"Prime Photos is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use it in connection with a professional photography business or other commercial service."

Lightroom folder alone is 1TB :P

Clients DNG's under 300GB
 
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or the other method is upload Client DNG's to Vidahost as im unlmited ?? but via FTP and guessing not that secure?
 
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