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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
02-17-2014, 03:06 AM
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I lost a ridiculous amount of photos, at the least the high res versions before I began storing larger files. I'm at a point now that I need to restructure.
At the moment my "current" working directory of photos is on my laptop which is backed up quietly and incrementally to my Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (a few terrabytes of good old raid). Then I have a 2 TB USB drive that I push "over flow" onto, which houses everything from about 6mo to a year and backwards. This I backup manually, also to the ReadyNAS every month or so. Aside from these, I periodically create Picasa albums at a smaller resolution which back up to Google+ for specific "home" oriented" memory sets, stuff that is just personal. (Many of my travel photos and earlier were saved in their smaller versions by the existence of these albums after a drive crash a couple years ago). Finally my "show-able" stuff is uploaded to both Flickr and to Ipernity accounts at full res, so anything that I have ever liked well enough to put much work into is safe there. I use a Firefox plugin to sink the flicker photos to Ipernity (one click) so this is pretty simple.
I need to revisit and structure these backups again, but for the most part I am FAR more protected than I used to be. This all may be overkill for many folks, but I'm just describing it here to show what's possible.
AWS Glacier that some have mentioned is great as well, but should be considered a "backup" plain and simple. Gaining access to the files stored on Glacier takes some lead time.. nothing there is immediately available to you after you've uploaded. You have to submit retrieval jobs that become available for download usually within a few hours. Good for restoring blocks of time or specific sets that you've sent there, but not so good for the occasional "what ever happened to that one shot from that one time, i'd like to look at it again" sort of times. Great service just understand what its capabilities and intended uses are.
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