Cloud Storage (Page 4): Yeah, take a look at Backblaze. I chose it over Carbonite because the latter charged extra for backing up external drives. But maybe that has changed?

srt101fan

Photolady2014 wrote:

You sound like me, but I don’t even have Backblaze yet.

Yeah, take a look at Backblaze. I chose it over Carbonite because the latter charged extra for backing up external drives. But maybe that has changed?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

srt101fan wrote:

Yeah, take a look at Backblaze. I chose it over Carbonite because the latter charged extra for backing up external drives. But maybe that has changed?

Not sure..
When I started with Carbonite, it was one drive on the computer (C:) for my selected package rate.
Our new desktop has a 512 SSD, a 2TB D: and 1TB E:.
It's backing up all three...... So far no change in price.
Maybe they went to one 'computer'? Maybe just internals?
Maybe because "C:"s are smaller now?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

It’s been graciously pointed out to me that I suggested “TimeFinder” as a backup Ap candidate for Mac users on page 1 of this thread. My brain must have been taking a vacation in the islands. I’m not a Mac user (except for IPads and IPhones), but even I know it’s Time Machine, not Time Finder. Apologies for the error.

Here’s.

Burkley Loc: Park City

I use Backblaze. I have a small internal hard drive of 1Tb on my MacBook Pro. That is obviously inadequate with a high megapixel camera. On Backblaze I can backup my 8Tb external hard drive each time that I turn on my laptop and connect the external drive. Very fast and convenient. They send me Email reminders when I have been on vacation for 2 weeks and failed to download. I have never had to recover, so I cannot comment on this part of their service.

Hip Coyote

Burkley wrote:

I use Backblaze. I have a small internal hard drive of 1Tb on my MacBook Pro. That is obviously inadequate with a high megapixel camera. On Backblaze I can backup my 8Tb external hard drive each time that I turn on my laptop and connect the external drive. Very fast and convenient. They send me Email reminders when I have been on vacation for 2 weeks and failed to download. I have never had to recover, so I cannot comment on this part of their service.

I use carbonite and for one fee, it backs up a few drives, including my dropbox and a "d" drive full of photos. It works in the background and I do not notice it.

But...one of my photog colleagues had a total hard drive failure. He said Backblaze sent him an entire drive full of his files and it was quite easy to recover. I am not seeing the hard drive (probably an SSD) option on carbonite. The other thing with carbonite, as I found out just a few days ago, is that it only has the files to restore. One cannot go on line, click on the file and see, say, a thumbnail of the photo to see if that is the one pic you might want. I imagine restoring a whole hard drive of photos would be quite time consuming.

In my case, I am looking for one specific file that I deleted (its actually a bad pic that some on the Hog wanted to dissect.) I am not aware if backblaze has this option.

a6k Loc: Detroit & Sanibel

MartyM wrote:

I use iDrive. First year 7.95. It saved 1T of pictures when an external drive failed out of warranty.

I use it too. There are many good choices and there are some "gotcha's" in how some work. Those peculiarities are OK for some, not for others. This one was my choice several years ago for both Mac and Windows. As is said, here, often, YMMV.

I will let you look into the details yourself. One worth mentioning is the encryption using your own key, optionally. I am not a trusting sort of person so backing up my private stuff to cloud, financial, etc., is only OK with the best encryption I can obtain/afford.

I will second the opinions above which say you should use both local AND cloud. IMO, neither is 100 % of the answer and having both is easy and inexpensive. Both Apple and Microsoft provide good features for local backup to external drives or your own network.

iDrive allows backup to local or cloud and can backup selected paths including network/shared drives.

I run iDrive nightly on each computer at slightly different times. I get a report on each one every morning and I get an email if there is a failure for any reason. The user can select the parameters for "failure".

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

if you have an amazon account, where you get free shipping, alexa etc, then you get free unlimited photo storage too. EXCEPT , after uploaded, they only show pix of JPG and ??? forgot the other, it does not show the pix of RAW images. Just the pic name.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

bdk wrote:

if you have an amazon account, where you get free shipping, alexa etc, then you get free unlimited photo storage too. EXCEPT , after uploaded, they only show pix of JPG and ??? forgot the other, it does not show the pix of RAW images. Just the pic name.

Because raw files are proprietary file formats and can’t be displayed by standard codecs.

Real Nikon Lover Loc: Simi Valley, CA

My back up is simple. I have a small unraid system I put together utilizing multiple SSDs. I am able to continuously clone them from my working C and D drives. I rotate two of the copied SSD's out to remote locations away from home in the event of fire everything is backed up. I have no use for and do not trust the cloud for anything. I never will. But that's just me. I am cheap.

Haenzel Loc: South Holland, The Netherlands

Photolady2014 wrote:

Ok, you have all helped with the new computer questions and hard drive storage and Lightroom.

Some have mentioned Backblaze and GoodSnyc. Are there others you would recommend and why?
I need easy and not looking to break the bank.
Thanks again for yet more info.
Beth

Take an old desktop with a small ssd as system drive, install OpenMediaVault. Add two mirrored storage drives, use Rsync. You could make agreements with a relative or friend to swap backup devices and cross backup automatically by powering up the desktop every x day.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

bdk wrote:

if you have an amazon account, where you get free shipping, alexa etc, then you get free unlimited photo storage too. EXCEPT , after uploaded, they only show pix of JPG and ??? forgot the other, it does not show the pix of RAW images. Just the pic name.

It's Photo backup only.

Real backup includes non-image files. Spreadsheets, word processing files, data files, PDFs, program configuration files, emails, even programs.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

DirtFarmer wrote:

It's Photo backup only.

Real backup includes non-image files. Spreadsheets, word processing files, data files, PDFs, program configuration files, emails, even programs.

You can save raw image files. You just won’t get thumbnails.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

SuperflyTNT wrote:

You can save raw image files. You just won’t get thumbnails.

I understand that. My point is that backup should include things other than images, finished or raw. Unless your computer is ONLY used for photography, you need to include other types of files. After all, there are lots of non-image files that would cause pain if they were corrupted.

Why would you want to have two backup systems? One for photos and one for everything else?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Real Nikon Lover wrote:

My back up is simple. I have a small unraid system I put together utilizing multiple SSDs. I am able to continuously clone them from my working C and D drives. I rotate two of the copied SSD's out to remote locations away from home in the event of fire everything is backed up. I have no use for and do not trust the cloud for anything. I never will. But that's just me. I am cheap.

If you’re using UnRaid, How many data drives and how many parity drives do you have?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

TriX wrote:

If you haven’t tried a restore, it might be worth your time. UnRaid’s data protection scheme or how the data is stripped onto disk or the parity information is not detailed in any of their documents last time I checked, so it wasn’t clear to me how many of your drives in the group are necessary to recreate the data if the remaining drive(s) fail

I just ‘copy’ data - and I’ve used backed up versions enough times to know the system works. If a fire occurs, it’ll just be like my dying a little earlier.