Photographers - how do you backup your images?

[ReadyDiverOne]

Don't want to sound like a shill, but have you considered Backblaze? Super cheap, works in the background, easy to use.

 

[lowwall]

Don't want to sound like a shill, but have you considered Backblaze? Super cheap, works in the background, easy to use.

I use this for my business backup. It's great. We have a metered account since it's just office files and a database and it's under $2 a month.

It looks like their current retail pricing is either metered at $6 per TB per month or an unlimited data personal account for $99 a year.

They give you 15 days free to check it out. Actually free, no cc needed for the trial.

 

[Wants2divemore]

Routinely backup my computer to a Western Digital 2TB external hard drive, kept in my small office fire safe (along with passports, birth certificates, etc.).

 

[Medel]

Home PC + Backblaze here for all raw + unsorted. If they're being shared/published, then flickr (because I'm old) or another cloud service.
Every now and then I talk about cross-site backup with my parents' server, too, but that never seemed worth it when backblaze is so cheap.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I use a 2TB backup drive. I had one fail once, but I didn't mind as they were old photos from point and shoot cameras. I also upload my jpegs to flickr. I only save about 2% of the photos I shoot.

 

[tarponchik]

USB sticks, 2 of them every time. Moneywise, 128-256 GB sticks are the cheapest.

 

[sea_ledford]

I mostly shoot video these days so I'm looking at options for this as well. I have about 10TB of external SSD hard drives, and mostly full on those. I won't use non-ssd hard drives for long term, had way too many failures (like all of them fail eventually).

Seriously looking at backblaze. I think it'll be less expensive than a large enough RAID if I include the expected HD failures over time.

 

[TostitoBandito]

I have all my images on an SSD hard drive in my PC, and backed up to the cloud via idrive, a cloud backup provider which offers plans with a lot of storage (multiple TB). I think I pay $100/year for 5 TB, and it automatically backs up whatever I want from my PC in the folders/drives I designate. It also supports multiple devices. Back in the day when I got this like a decade ago it was far cheaper than icloud or onedrive, but it looks like those now have pricing in the same ballpark. I think OneDrive with 6TB is like $130/year (family plan). Everyone should have something like this (or a cheap/free onedrive/icloud plan) for their documents at the very least, even if you don't do photography.

I don't bother with local backup anymore. The odds of both the cloud and my local PC or hard drive exploding simultaneously are basically zero, and plus having additional hard drives in my house does little when my house burns down or something along those lines. You'd have to have them off site, and I'm not nearly that paranoid. This is a hobby for me.

While travelling on dive trips I bring my laptop and an external SSD-based hard drive, and I download my images to both the laptop's SSD and the external drive for redundancy until I can get home and upload to the cloud.

 

[bvanant]

My wife has two independent RAID arrays for her video stuff. They get backed up to each other regularly. If the house burns down (a non-zero probability here in Southern California) then we will just have to go back and shoot the stuff again. Finished videos are on Vimeo so that helps. Dropbox is like $30/month. Backblaze is also too expensive for lots of video storage. I should make an occasional backup and take it to the lab
Bill

 

[lowwall]

Y'all should start sharing NAS space.