Cloud Storage (Page 2): Thank you for your input.

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY Loc: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Thank you for your input.

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY Loc: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

So what do you use for your "offsite"?
A third external HD or a cloud service

I am most appreciative of all of the comments that I have been getting

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY Loc: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

What is your "disaster" program?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

TriX wrote:

3 copies is the professional standard:

* primary (working) storage
* local backup
* off site disaster recovery (DR) copy

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY wrote:

What is your "disaster" program?

MY disaster "program" is the cloud storage (eg. Carbonite). The disaster is if my house blows up/floods with everything in it.

"Offsite" is anywhere not in your house or business office, another physical location. eg. the cloud, or a hard drive stored at a friend's house, or a hard drive stored in a deposit box at the bank.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

JD750 wrote:

Automatically deletes your images?

What cloud storage company does that? That would defeat the purpose of cloud storage.

I have received messages from both Microsoft and from Apple, each saying that I am close to my limit, and offering to sell me more. I don’t know whether they would delete a few if I did reach my limit - most likely they just wouldn’t accept any more. Both happen automatically when a photo shows up on my iPhone, whether I took it with my iPhone or transferred it from a camera.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Longshadow wrote:

MY disaster "program" is the cloud storage (eg. Carbonite). The disaster is if my house blows up/floods with everything in it.

In which case, I might be part of “everything in it” and recovering stuff would be my heirs’s problem.

I suppose the issue is why you photograph. I do it to record my life, not to create nice art that others might enjoy during and after my time.

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY wrote:

Thanks for the advise. Thinking about purchasing a solid state external drive. Currently I use two (2) external drives for my RAW images (Primary-Backup).

Just don't forget that everything is subject to failure. Maybe look at Carbonite for a backup solution. Very intuitive and about $50 a year.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

rehess wrote:

In which case, I might be part of “everything in it” and recovering stuff would be my heirs’s problem.

I suppose the issue is why you photograph. I do it to record my life, not to create nice art that others might enjoy during and after my time.

A good reason to give your heirs the password and login to your cloud account - that way your family history that you’ve recorded with your images will be preserved.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

TriX wrote:

A good reason to give your heirs the password and login to your cloud account - that way your family history that you’ve recorded with your images will be preserved.

I share many of the scenes {from the wedding of a daughter to the antics of a cat} at the time via a ‘chat’ posting. In fact, loading a photo to my iPhone for posting is how they end up on iCloud or OneDrive. If they don’t save them now, I’m not convinced they would bother to save them later.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY wrote:

What is your "disaster" program?

A disaster recovery plan ensures you have an off-site copy in case of fire, flood, theft, tornado, hurricane, meteor strike, act of war, etc.

Most companies have a backup strategy that protects an off-line, off-site copy of everything recent (24 hours or less), along with online and off line local copies.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I put my files in a Kush cloud and never found them again

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY Loc: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

burkphoto wrote:

A disaster recovery plan ensures you have an off-site copy in case of fire, flood, theft, tornado, hurricane, meteor strike, act of war, etc.

Most companies have a backup strategy that protects an off-line, off-site copy of everything recent (24 hours or less), along with online and off line local copies.

I understand that. It makes good sense. I guess my question is, what would you specifically recommend as a backup plan? Thanks

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY wrote:

I understand that. It makes good sense. I guess my question is, what would you specifically recommend as a backup plan? Thanks

I use Apple’s Time machine and iCloud, and a number of hard drives. I have seen a dozen drives fail since 1986, so I’m careful to have redundancy.

PMM PHOTOGRAPHY Loc: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Thanks for the info. Most appreciated