Backing up my large collection of photos
Feb 10, 2020 21:10:40 #
TriX wrote:
What is your best guesstimate of how long that will be? 
Sometime between now and then!
(Actually it will be then, won't it.)
Feb 10, 2020 21:52:42 #
therwol
Loc: USA
Dngallagher wrote:
No, not talking about the SD cards...once you copy... (show quote)
I don't refer to the cards at all one they're used up. They're there just in case. I have multiple other backups. Call me paranoid, but I don't throw things like that away.
Feb 10, 2020 21:57:14 #
therwol wrote:
I don't refer to the cards at all one they're used up. They're there just in case. I have multiple other backups. Call me paranoid, but I don't throw things like that away.
I copy from the cards to computer, backup hourly locally to Time Machine, monthly to a separate external, to a cloud service and reformat the SD card in camera once I know I have at least 1 backup.
Feb 11, 2020 06:00:45 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
Douglas Tharp wrote:
I am looking for suggestions on back up of my large collection of photos.
My main drive for my pictures is a WD passport and it getting rather large. I am currently backing up using WD Backup to a WD 4tb passport one a week.
After coming close to loosing all my pictures with 2 WD passports, sent back to WD directly to a engineer, I got two replacement drives from WD.
I am looking at the WD My Duo RAID 0 with the idea to copy all the files to that as the main backup.
My main drive for my pictures is a WD passport and it getting rather large. I am currently backing up using WD Backup to a WD 4tb passport one a week.
After coming close to loosing all my pictures with 2 WD passports, sent back to WD directly to a engineer, I got two replacement drives from WD.
I am looking at the WD My Duo RAID 0 with the idea to copy all the files to that as the main backup.
I have then stored in lots of places, Photoshop CC, Nikon's new cloud service, hard drives and thumb drives.
Feb 11, 2020 06:11:12 #
I am done with the external backup drives. They fail too often and cost a fortune to retrieve the data from them. I will be going to the cloud with my files here on out. Just had a Seagate drive fail last weekend during backup. Probably only used 10 hours of spin time. No more for me let professionals do backups.
Feb 11, 2020 08:09:08 #
Dngallagher wrote:
FWIW: br br If you lose a backup you should lose ... (show quote)
For 60$/mo add BackBlaze. They will B/U all your drives. I lost almost all off 2019 images of a drive, BB restored all of them. Interesting part was the rest of the drive was unaffected .
Feb 11, 2020 08:16:31 #
I back up my working HD weekly to 2 mirrored 8TB external HD's, and use Backblaze for disaster recovery.
Feb 11, 2020 08:20:14 #
mborn wrote:
For 60$/mo add BackBlaze. They will B/U all your drives. I lost almost all off 2019 images of a drive, BB restored all of them. Interesting part was the rest of the drive was unaffected .
$60 a MONTH?
Feb 11, 2020 08:36:26 #
Longshadow wrote:
$60 a MONTH?
Sorry $60/yr Just had my coffee
BTW if you use https://secure.backblaze.com/r/010sos you get a free month
Feb 11, 2020 08:42:30 #
As you see, many solutions here.
I used to copy everything to DVD and blue ray disks. DVD’s are obsolete at this point. Also only hold 700mb.
I just transferred all of my CD’s to a aux. Hard drive. Posted photo the other day.
I now use an 8TB hard drive configured in a RAID 1 config. Has hot swap out. Then I backup to a LaCie drive for off site storage.
I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac.
I used to copy everything to DVD and blue ray disks. DVD’s are obsolete at this point. Also only hold 700mb.
I just transferred all of my CD’s to a aux. Hard drive. Posted photo the other day.
I now use an 8TB hard drive configured in a RAID 1 config. Has hot swap out. Then I backup to a LaCie drive for off site storage.
I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac.
Feb 11, 2020 08:43:35 #
Dngallagher wrote:
No, not talking about the SD cards...once you copy... (show quote)
The problem I have with using cards as backup is three fold. First the cost, a 64GB card runs a round $18 or $0.28 per GB while a 1T external drive runs around $50 or $0.05 per GB. As the size of storage rises the cost per GB of an external drive drops while the cost per GB of a card rises. The cost of card storage is actually even higher than I have stated since you are more likely to have permanently unused space on a card while you keep using the external until it is closer to full before moving it to an archive. In addition you need to buy more cards to take more photos. Second is organization of the cards. Looking for a file somewhere on a bunch of cards is a pain in the butt. Third, it is just too easy to loose a little card.
Feb 11, 2020 08:51:54 #
mborn wrote:
Sorry $60/yr Just had my coffee
BTW if you use https://secure.backblaze.com/r/010sos you get a free month
BTW if you use https://secure.backblaze.com/r/010sos you get a free month
I usually don't work well in the morning without coffee either.
Feb 11, 2020 08:56:04 #
Longshadow wrote:
I usually don't work well in the morning without coffee either.
I usually don't work well in the morning without coffee either.
Feb 11, 2020 08:58:57 #
therwol wrote:
I don't refer to the cards at all one they're used up. They're there just in case. I have multiple other backups. Call me paranoid, but I don't throw things like that away.
"when it comes to backup, you can't be too paranoid"
This may be the exception to the rule.
Feb 11, 2020 11:04:27 #
After 15 year of running a data and application center I have learned to be cautious of raid configurations. They tend to give users a false sense of security. If you go down the raid route use only Enterprise drives and use configurations of raid 5, 6, or 10. The expense of using this type of storage is one of the big drivers of cloud storage where distributive storage is the norm.
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