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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
02-16-2014, 07:06 PM
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The issue isn't so much them losing your images, but the fact that all of your work is floating out there in the cloud.. unsecured.. no thanks.
And, like you say, as with anything on the internet, if anyone can access them they will steal them.
RAID is part of a fine backup solution. But, as I mentioned initially, one would still need a secondary set of data stored out of their immediate area to be a true backup solution.
The RAID just provides redundancy to the data.. so if one disk crashes and burns, there is still a remaining disk with all of the data. But if a surge somehow spikes both disks, then still in trouble.. hence offsite copies are necessary.
If I HAD to float my RAWs in the cloud, I'd package and encrypt with a super long password. Password length is far more important than complexity (provided you're not using common, dictionary words in your long passwords) in cracking. Definitely wouldn't leave them open faced for the world to take.. unless that was my goal..
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Agreed. I suspect that story is sad too..
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
02-15-2014, 11:37 PM
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I wouldn't trust Yahoo or Google as your data backup...
Besides, whatever sized images you load on Flickr (for instance) can be pulled down by anyone if they finesse the page source code.. And I don't think you get to control shared size anyways with the free account.
I like Flickr though for hosting images to show.. but definitely not as a backup.
For backup, I have small, external mirrored RAID array as well as DVD copies. But DVDs alone aren't sufficient as they degrade over time.. I've had CDs that have degraded to the point the reader claims they are empty in around 10 or so years and some that still work.. flaky and only used as a secondary, short term addition. Even the mirrored RAID setup could fail in theory..
If I was doing this for a living I'd probably colocate my data in some form.. be it through a 3rd party data farm or just sending copies of hard disks/SD cards/thumbdrives to other safe locations in the world. Because, if you think about it, how useful is a backup of your data if you keep it in your house and it burns down, gets robbed, flooded, tornadoed, hurricained, earthquaked, etc...
Btw, Dansamy, if the failed disk that contained your photos is still available and hasn't had data recorded on it since then, the data may still be recoverable.. lots of software out there as well as recovery benches that will open the disk and recover your data... even if it is a partial recovery it is better than none..
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Oh, yeah, and GO GREENBAY!! :)
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