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Saving Back-Up Photos
Jul 7, 2017 14:14:39 #
My computer is packed with photos - all automatically backed up to a disk. Question: If I remove photos from my computer to make room - will the photos also be removed from the back-up? I am operating on System 10. Thanks.
Jul 7, 2017 15:16:28 #
PGPreuss wrote:
My computer is packed with photos - all automatically backed up to a disk. Question: If I remove photos from my computer to make room - will the photos also be removed from the back-up? I am operating on System 10. Thanks.
In a word . . . no, but that depends on how you are currently doing your backup.
Perhaps the best recommendation for you would be to go online and purchase a 2-4 TB external, USB3 hard drive. It'll plug right into your computer and make itself available to put your photos on. Then, you can delete them from your computer's internal hard drive.
Personally, I would buy two of those drives, and once you get your photos copied over to the first one, copy them to the second one. Now, you'll have your photos off your computer's hard drive AND they'll be backed up.
Jul 7, 2017 15:25:08 #
PGPreuss wrote:
My computer is packed with photos - all automatically backed up to a disk. Question: If I remove photos from my computer to make room - will the photos also be removed from the back-up? I am operating on System 10. Thanks.
No, but as brucewells said, "...but..."
If you have a backup program that makes both drives the same, that's exactly what it will do. I use SyncBack SE, and I have that set to Mirror, and that's what it does. When I backup my D drive to G, it adds anything to G that isn't there, and it removes anything from G that has been deleted from D. I figure if a file wasn't important enough to keep on my D drive, why back it up on G?
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Jul 7, 2017 18:40:20 #
If you have a backup disk that is not RAID 0, mirroring, then eventually, you'll be screwed. I spoke with someone yesterday who lost upwards of 50,000 photos when his LaCie drive died.
Jul 7, 2017 18:58:49 #
DGStinner
Loc: New Jersey
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
If you have a backup disk that is not RAID 0, mirroring, then eventually, you'll be screwed. I spoke with someone yesterday who lost upwards of 50,000 photos when his LaCie drive died.
I think you meant to say RAID 1. RAID 0 is striping. Also RAID is not meant to be a backup by itself.
Jul 8, 2017 08:15:22 #
If you're using Windows File history, it would be available for some time, possibly months, but would eventually be aged out of the backup(s). This is an excellent back up option in Win 10, which a lot of people seem to be unaware of. Pretty much the same as Apple's Time Machine.
In any case, it.s very important to know how your backup software is set up.
In any case, it.s very important to know how your backup software is set up.
Jul 8, 2017 08:26:51 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
PGPreuss wrote:
My computer is packed with photos - all automatically backed up to a disk. Question: If I remove photos from my computer to make room - will the photos also be removed from the back-up? I am operating on System 10. Thanks.
When you tried to find out for yourself, by removing one photo from your computer, was it also removed from your backup disk?
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Jul 8, 2017 09:27:40 #
I also use SyncbackSE. It's a powerful tool and their support is excellent if you have the paid version. I use and love OneDrive but OneDrive could easily strip my computer if used improperly. So I use the SyncbackSE Backup mode which is always one-way computer-to-external drive. There's another reason I do this. One backup drive gets backed up every night and the other sits in a bank safe deposit box. Once a month I swap them. The SyncbackSE Backup mode makes the external hard drives easily interchangeable. Yes, since it saves everything, you get a slow buildup of excess discarded files so once a year I wipe each backup drive clean and start over with a fresh backup. SyncbackSE doesn't encrypt the data so you can easily access data on your backup drives with File Explorer. There are a few times that I have retrieved files from the backup drive, that I had already dumped from my computer. Whew!
Jul 8, 2017 09:31:05 #
Caribou
Loc: St. Louis, MO
Simplify your life and take brucewells advice. I have lots of photos I don't want to lose in addition to many music files. I have couple of hard drives I can connect and disconnect at will. For one thing your C: drive can fail and you can lose everything. And, you can get hacked. This ransomware business worries me. I leave my auxiliary drives unconnected until I'm ready to backup. If I was hacked or if C: failed those files would be safe. It's cheap insurance.
Jul 8, 2017 09:51:26 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
brucewells wrote:
In a word . . . no, but that depends on how you ar... (show quote)
especially the multiple external hard drives. I've had two external hard drives fail on me and they hold all of my photos (I ran out of room on my internal hard drive). Someone on UHH reminded us that one backup isn't a backup if it fails. I have 3 external hard drives to which I back up regularly.Jul 8, 2017 11:52:23 #
NBBPH
Loc: Indiana
I back up all of my photos on two external hard drives and make DVDs, that gives me three backups. I also have all my current computer hard drive files backed up using Carbonite. Carbonite has saved me twice, once from a virus that contaminated my files and once when my computer hard drive failed.
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Jul 8, 2017 11:53:20 #
Jul 8, 2017 11:55:01 #
DGStinner wrote:
I think you meant to say RAID 1. RAID 0 is striping. Also RAID is not meant to be a backup by itself.
Yeah, RAID 1. HDs fail, and having a NAS eliminates another source of problems.
Jul 8, 2017 16:49:16 #
If you are using cloud backups, typically if a file i removed from the computer, it i only stored in the cloud for another 30 day (Carbonite).
Jul 8, 2017 20:51:34 #
Patrick9
Loc: Muncie, IN
Keep it simple. Back up to at least two external hard drives or one external hard drive and something like Carbonite. For the hard drives use a program like SyncToy (free from Microsoft) that will find new files and add them to the external drive but never remove them even if you delete them from your computer.
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