which off site cloud backup?

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I use Hubic (French) and it's 1 euro for a 100gb or 10 euro for 10tb per month. You can have one account per email address (I use two) and it's drag and drop to a local folder for replication which is quick.
Also, French privacy laws are very tight compared to the rest of Europe / World if that matters to you.
 
Cheers i shall look at them :)

How secure can the french laws be? compaired to usa (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, and Glacier via S3.)

etc.
 
Very secure.
You basically need a letter from GOD to look at some ones data. This is the country where it is illegal to take somebodies photograph without their permission hence loads of famous people live there - no paparazzi. The safe harbour agreement is a joke between the EU and USA. Even Blizzard for World of Warcraft store their clients data in Europe. Read the information on the Hubic website for more information. I don't have anything to hide but don't like storing my stuff with American companies and I do financial services databases for a living and we don't store anything outside the EU.
 
never knew that :)

Just want to store client data (wedding/portrait) sessons
for that extra piece of mind as an archive and be able to retrive them at a moments notice and not get penalised with re-downloads cost.
 
Well i went for it and gave Hubic a chance :)

So far backed up my phone images/videos and seems okay....
The speed is very slow!!

Might see about S3!
 
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Raymond Lin said:
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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I wish I could export DNG versions of my files with settings embedded for backup purposes but retain the CR2. I've read conflicting reports about DNG and that it actually doesn't preserve all the information in the CR2.

How does the photo backup on Amazon work - do they just restrict the file extensions you can upload? What's to stop you changing ZIP files to CR2 and backing those up? ;)

EDIT: Ok so I can export DNG - didn't realise that - although that's a pain for backup as I'm duplicating every file in a different format.

The best solution for me is backing up the CR2 and XMP sidecar files but I doubt Amazon Prime Photos would allow the XMP files would it?

Also Ray, the T&Cs for Prime Photos specify non-commercial use. Is there a professional version or are you just 'ignoring' that? ;)
 
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Buy a D-Link Sharecentre and install two 3TB hard drives (WD Reds). Install ExtremeCopy and use that to transfer (copy) from one drive to the other. Or use Karen's Replicator (Free) or something else that's faster. Can access anywhere in world.
Of course if cash no objevt then buy some other NAS that is faster.Up to you.
 
RussD said:
Buy a D-Link Sharecentre and install two 3TB hard drives (WD Reds). Install ExtremeCopy and use that to transfer (copy) from one drive to the other. Or use Karen's Replicator (Free) or something else that's faster. Can access anywhere in world.
Of course if cash no objevt then buy some other NAS that is faster.Up to you.
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Don't you need to buy a house along with that NAS to qualify it as "off site"?
 
Bit of a bump, but Crashplan has finally finished uploading all 2.7TB of data from my MBP and Time Capsule…

It's taken five months to the day to upload just under 3TB.

It's not entirely fair on Crashplan, because it's not been a constant connection. I take my laptop out of the house for at least three full days a week, I've had weekends away on top of that and I don't always have it running when I am home.

Having said that, I did change a lot of settings in order to reduce the load throttling which is built into the default settings. God knows how long it would take if I hadn't done that, but I can guarantee that I'd still be a long way off at this stage.

In the meantime, I've tried out Hubic, paired up with a demo of ExpandDrive. Initial tests seemed positive, but it's a real pain that ExpandDrive doesn't show you the current upload speed and progress bar, which made it quite difficult to gauge its effectiveness.

I'm still waiting for Amazon to release the complete unlimited storage for Prime customers in the UK, which I think will be the best overall solution.
 
Mp4 said:
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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If you can get someone to join you and share a dropbox bussiness accouunt , about £60 a month but its amazing and so easy too use plus you get unlimted backup so you will never run out of space / plus you can drag and drop every type of file you like in too the system and access it any where in the world, I backup everything here everyday - from movies to all my wedding portfolio photos. Yes its £720 for the year but if you split this with someone its a good deal.
 
So you now trusted your images to the Cloud, so the internet goes down and you need a specific image. You can't get it. Their site goes down, you can't get your image. Tut Tut.

Surely you can buy a 3TB or 4 TB hard drive to back up your images to. I got 3x3TB + a few 1TB drives that my images are backed up to, so If I want a specific image I can get it at any time without hassle.
 
RussD said:
So you now trusted your images to the Cloud, so the internet goes down and you need a specific image. You can't get it. Their site goes down, you can't get your image. Tut Tut.

Surely you can buy a 3TB or 4 TB hard drive to back up your images to. I got 3x3TB + a few 1TB drives that my images are backed up to, so If I want a specific image I can get it at any time without hassle.
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You're absolutely right, one shouldn't rely solely on cloud backup. However, it's all about redundancy. Those 3TB HDDs are no use if your house burns down.
 
I have a Synology DS414 for local storage - that backs up onto external 3TB usb drives which are kept in the detached garage 'offsite'.

In addition the DS414 backs up to amazon glacier storage for long term emergency storage.
 
Hodders said:
I have a Synology DS414 for local storage - that backs up onto external 3TB usb drives which are kept in the detached garage 'offsite'.

In addition the DS414 backs up to amazon glacier storage for long term emergency storage.
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Similar setup here, Synology with 2 mirrored drives that backs up to an external USB drive and Google Drive, I tried S3 but prefer Google just because it makes it easier to view the files and share them with friends/family.

I used Crashplan in the past but the upload speeds were terrible here in NZ which killed it as an option.
 
Anyone here with a qnap nas? If so which app are you using for cloud backup?

My desktop dual stores on my pc/onedrive whihc syncs to my nas. Thinking of setting up my nas to sync to another cloud service for another backup option. Possibly google drive.
 
Similar question as this really, have a Synology NAS at work we use as a main file sharing platform and thinking we should have this backed up to the cloud, been looking at Google Drive but not sure how it integrates with DSM?

welshdragon said:
Anyone here with a qnap nas? If so which app are you using for cloud backup?

My desktop dual stores on my pc/onedrive whihc syncs to my nas. Thinking of setting up my nas to sync to another cloud service for another backup option. Possibly google drive.
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jasonmorris said:
I use Hubic (French) and it's 1 euro for a 100gb or 10 euro for 10tb per month. You can have one account per email address (I use two) and it's drag and drop to a local folder for replication which is quick.
Also, French privacy laws are very tight compared to the rest of Europe / World if that matters to you.
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Was reading through the thread as I was looking for a replacement for OneDrive. Thanks for suggesting this! I'm using it now.
 
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