kschwegl Loc: Orangeburg, NY

Glad I could help.
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Merlin1300 Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX

Cindy: What are your photos worth to you ?? Mine are priceless. You may NOT need this much storage (you can use smaller disk drives than the 3TB drives I used in the configuration), or not quite as fast (ie the QNAP 410 with 4x1GB HDDs instead of the 419P-II Turbo with 4x3TB HDDs {what I used} may suffice) - - but I highly recommend fault tolerant (RAID-5) backup for your files. And if you are VERY conservative - - you will back up your back-ups at an off-site location.
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montanasoybean Loc: Montana

Already have 400G backed up online with Carbonite. Problem of high MP camera and HD video.

Merlin1300 Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX

Carbonite - - reasonable concept - unfortunately I currently have 2TB of stuff I need to back up (last weekend, I added 22GB of stuff - no telling where that will end). Monthly (or annual) cost would eat me alive over time.

gmcase Loc: Galt's Gulch

They do now have external drive backup option. No limit and the cost with externals is $99 a year. Fairly low cost.

Merlin1300 Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX

Well - - it sounds great - - but with nearly 10x their "large backup" consideration - I'm not sure what their 'slow' speed would mean - -

... "With your Carbonite subscription you get as much space as you need for your backup. However, for exceptionally large backups – 200GB or more – backup speed will slow noticeably after the first 200GBs have been backed up."

ajabba Loc: Oklahoma

I have 3 1TB internal hard drives. Two of them have about 800GB each and those are the drives I am backing up to Carbonite. I have been backing up for 2 years and 1 week exactly, and I'm 88% there. Carbonite lets you have more bandwidth for upload until a certain amount - not sure what that is - then they throttle you down. I have asked them twice if I can pay extra for a faster upload time until it finishes and the answer is always "no". One of the problems with my online backup is that I accidentally chose both large drives to be backed up at the same time and Carbonite does the weirdest things on its backup. It picks and chooses randomly from all the files it's backing up. For example, it may backup one file from one subfolder from one folder on Drive C: then it may jump to Drive F: and do the same thing there. Before I realized this, my plan was to stop backing up some of the files to give the other files a chance to finish and that way I would have some files, or even one drive completely backed up. But - since the files are randomly backed up, I can't do that. When I tried to do it, it said I would lose what was already backed up in that file. I asked Carbonite how exactly they chose which files to back up first and nobody was able to tell me. Years ago, I started backing up with Mozy and it was even worse. Okay, sorry so long, but it's my 2 cents about online backup (still glad to have it as one of my backup choices though).