markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I realized that I could easily do it with Acronis. It's only 3+ GB, so it did not take very long. I already backup my entire C to an external and cloud, but one more backup is never too many.
Mark

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Is that their $99 a year cloud?

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Yes Jerry. I've been using this for 10 years. It's continually improved.
Mark

glenmarshall

I use MS OneDrive for LR. With Office365 subscription, US $100/yr, I get 1TB of cloud storage.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

That's cool. For $99 a year, I get unlimited storage and incredible tech support with Acronis. I have auto backups to externals and the cloud of all my drives, laptop and devices. I can recover an entire drive or discreet files with a few mouse clicks. When I wanted to increase my SSD from 240 GB to 1 TB, I did it with those few mouse clicks and was back up and running, with everything in place, in an hour.
Thanks for your comment
Mark

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alandg46 Loc: Boerne, Texas

I don't use the cloud for backup very much. With less than 1mbps upload speed, it takes forever and chews up too much bandwidth for doing other stuff.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

My upload approaches 40 Mbps, so it does not take too long. Particularly after the "full" upload, the incremental additions are very fast.
Thanks for the response.
Mark

Paul Buckhiester Loc: Columbus, GA USA

You also can back it up to Creative Cloud.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Thanks. I may do that.
Mark

Jim Bob

$99? Hmm. I can get a 3 terabyte external drive for that price or cheaper. What's the real advantage to cloud backup other than the possibility that a drive may fail or one's house might be destroyed in some catastrophe?

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Just in case!! I have 3 external drives. 2 -3TB & one 4TB. About 3 yrs. ago, my dedicated internal photo drive developed bad sectors. I had backed up religiously. However, since the drive had developed bad sectors, (unknown to me) my backups were corrupt. Lost tons of images. Recovered about 1/2 via recovery software. Since, I've been doing multiple backups, including cloud. My $99 also includes very sophisticated software and superb tech support, when needed. I backup my 3 internal hard drives, 1 SSD (OS) and 2 Sata for data, every hour and once a day to the cloud. With the software, I can recover any of my backup files, incremental, full or even discrete parts of them, in short time with a mouse click.

Mark

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Mark, you do realize that the first moment you add to that catalog, the backup is no longer current and new material would be lost in case of a drive failure.
--Bob

RonBoyd

My "Backup" system is similar... except for the Cloud part.

My Images backup system is accomplished solely with the program "Compare Advance" - http://www.bauerapps.com/compare-folders-windows-compare-advance/ - (there are many similar programs). I have two identical 4TB external drives that contain all of the Lightroom files (program and catalog) AND all of my image files. This was done, initially, by a simple copy-to procedure but is now maintained solely by "Compare Advance": one drive is attached to my desktop machine and the other goes with my Laptop while traveling.

"Compare Advance" keeps these two drives synced by simply copying changed/added files between the two drives. Therefore, on these two drives, this is done on a "as needed" basis.

In the meantime, after every processing done on the desktop, "Compare Advance" is used to copy the changed/added files to three external 3TB drives.

Since, this (Compare Advance) is simple copying, there is no fear of duplicating "bad sectors" or other HD problems.

This system has served me well for many years. I should mention, of course, that I always allow Lightroom to do its built-in "Backup" to the internal drive of the machine in use at the time.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Yes, I do. Thanks for pointing that out. Actually, I do not do PP with LR. I do use it as a browser. I'm slowly converting to a user, but I'm on step 2 of a 50 step staircase.
Mark

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Sounds like a very good system.
Mark