Backing up 15,000 photos from Mac Photos (Page 2): In the old days we simply called clouds a data center. But I guess the idea of clouds markets better... Best, Todd Ferguson...

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

Mac wrote:

Apple has an iCloud back-up for Photos. I don't know the cost off hand but you could check with Apple to find out.

In the old days we simply called clouds a data center. But I guess the idea of clouds markets better...

Best,
Todd Ferguson
Harrisburg, NC

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Notorious T.O.D. wrote:

In the old days we simply called clouds a data center. But I guess the idea of clouds markets better...

Best,
Todd Ferguson
Harrisburg, NC

Very good.

"The cloud" is terrifying to hardware vendors because the largest cloud companies don't purchase storage (and sometimes servers) from the mainline vendors, they build their own (Google builds their own Google Map appliance for example). Every major storage/server vendor has a cloud strategy to try to ameliorate the move away from the traditional on-site model - it's often referred to as a "private cloud" or a "hybrid cloud". Unfortunately for the HW manufacturers (and often IT admins), companies see IT as an overhead expense, so acronyms like ITAAS (IT as a service) are beginning to become the norm, and last time I checked, almost 2/3 of companies are moving some part of their infrastructure to the cloud. To your point, the "private cloud" is no different from the classic client/server/network model - just a different interface to access the server.

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

TriX,

I agree 110 percent...
I got caught up in the GM EDS acquisition back in the day...was that ever interesting!

Best,
Todd Ferguson
Harrisburg, NC

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

TriX,

I agree with you 110 percent.
I got caught up in the GM EDS acquisition and merger back in the day...now that was interesting!!!

Goodman45 Loc: COOKEVILLE, TN

I have 3 copies of my photos,
One on the computer
One on a 4 TB external drive
One to either CD or DVD disc.

I would spend some time separating your photos into categories you can recognize.
The more folders the better.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Notorious T.O.D. wrote:

In the old days we simply called clouds a data center. But I guess the idea of clouds markets better...

Best,
Todd Ferguson
Harrisburg, NC

I'm surprised they chose the word "cloud." A cloud is about as permanent as vapor, which is what it is. "Vault" would have been a better term.

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

Jerry,
Very true...
Perhaps it is because most people have about the attention span of a cloud these days!!!
I find the whole cloud thing amusing being a now older IT and engineering guy. I often believe it was something the cellular companies dreamed up so they could charge you money both to upload and download your own stuff. Who funds the survalence society, why those under survalence of course. And most do it gladly!!!

Best,
Todd Ferguson
Harrisburg, NC

hank6595 Loc: Amesbury, MA

I have over 20K pictures backed up by Carbonite. Over a year ago, I had a major crash and one call to Carbonite and I had them all back within two days. To me it was the best $59. a year I have spent. I also do some
backup on disks which I keep in a fire proof container.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

I sure hope that I’m not “hijacking this thread”, but do you (or anyone) know if Backblaze, Amazon, Google, etc., or any of the cloud services compress your photos? I already backup to two external H Drives and the cloud sounds like what a “nuc trained” guy needs for the “third leg” of the OCD tripod of security.

rmalarz wrote:

I'd suggest checking out backblaze. They are exceptionally reasonable, no upload or storage limits, runs in the backgound.
--Bob

taj334 Loc: Long Island

jerryc41 wrote:

BackBlaze is also good as a reference and learning site. They publish occasional failure reports on their thousands of disk drives.

Thank you. Will look into and consider BackBlaze.

taj334 Loc: Long Island

Goodman45 wrote:

I have 3 copies of my photos,
One on the computer
One on a 4 TB external drive
One to either CD or DVD disc.

I would spend some time separating your photos into categories you can recognize.
The more folders the better.

Thanks Goodman45. I have a 2 TB external drive that I could put them on. Separating them into categories and folders is a whole other deal for me. Photos has a fairly good way to organize them in the app. You're right about getting them backed up into categories I can recognize. That's important.

taj334 Loc: Long Island

hank6595 wrote:

I have over 20K pictures backed up by Carbonite. Over a year ago, I had a major crash and one call to Carbonite and I had them all back within two days. To me it was the best $59. a year I have spent. I also do some
backup on disks which I keep in a fire proof container.

Thanks hank6595. That's a good testimonial for Carbonite. I wonder if, when you got them back, were they in chronological order?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Jimmy T wrote:

I sure hope that I’m not “hijacking this thread”, ... (show quote)

Not sure if any of the services compress data on their storage (would depend on the storage and file system), but if they did, it would be decompressed when you downloaded - i.e. You should get back the same file you uploaded.

hank6595 Loc: Amesbury, MA

taj334 wrote:

Thanks hank6595. That's a good testimonial for Carbonite. I wonder if, when you got them back, were they in chronological order?

They were in the same order as I had them. Easy to find what I am looking for as they have their own folders. I highly recommend Caronite.

tHANKs

bettis1 Loc: Texas

taj334 wrote:

Thank you. Will look into and consider BackBlaze.

If you are using Lightroom be careful about moving your files into different categories on your hard drive before you back them up. If you move them on your computer drive then Lightroom won't be able to find them.

Bob