Photographers - how do you backup your images?
- Thread starter Tassie_Rohan
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
That I know, I just didn't get the NAS with space. I thought it was another competitive cloud storage provider. I guess I put too much into it
That I know, I just didn't get the NAS with space. I thought it was another competitive cloud storage provider. I guess I put too much into it
Yea, I think you were overthinking it.
I believe he was just joking about all of the NAS space that people have and suggested they share it with others since it is technically network accessible. LOL
External hard drives
Yep. Doesn't have to be a joke though. You can set up a 2-bay NAS with 2x 12TB drives for about $500. Set them up as RAID 1 (mirroring) in case of HD failure and then set aside 6TB for your buddy who is doing the same.Yea, I think you were overthinking it.
Set the backup software to run from 2am-5am. You can also set them up as encrypted drives so the stuff that's backed up to your buddy is private. You wouldn't want to do video editing from an encrypted drive but it would be fine for backup.
Or if you are dealing with multiple TB of data just use backblaze (or someone similar) for $99 a year for unlimited backup. Note that this is not a live cloud file storage where you can directly browse or share individual files, it's just for backup and any needed restores. OTOH, it does include versioning which means they keep copies of deleted files or previous versions of overwritten files for up to a year (30 days is standard, but you can change it in the settings for no additional charge).
Backblaze Is The Home Computer Backup Provider To Protect and Preserve Your Files and Digital Memories
Never lose a photo, video, or file again. Backblaze is your family computer backup provider for unlimited cloud storage, protecting a lifetime of digital memories and files. Cloud backup made easy and automatic. Sign up for Backblaze unlimited online backup for $9 per month.
www.backblaze.com
+1 on Backblaze - but keep in mind that the initial backup can take a LONG time, depending on your internet connection. But, once you're caught up it's seamless. In the event you never need to recover everything they'll ship you a hard drive with your files on it (for no charge, last I checked, as long as you send the drive back to them). They do have a mobile app and web interface that you can use to retrieve individual files as well.
In addition to time-bounding the backups, you can also set bandwidth limits in case your internet connection is limited.
In addition to time-bounding the backups, you can also set bandwidth limits in case your internet connection is limited.
1. Laptop with scan disk backup (download files to laptop then do manual backup)
2. Synology Drive software on the laptop links laptop to Synology NAS automatically backing up working files to NAS with RAID redundancy
3. Monthly Synology NAS backup to external drives that I archive offsite.
Ideally I would like to implement a secondary Synology drive offsite to backup to overnight but it maybe an overkill.
2. Synology Drive software on the laptop links laptop to Synology NAS automatically backing up working files to NAS with RAID redundancy
3. Monthly Synology NAS backup to external drives that I archive offsite.
Ideally I would like to implement a secondary Synology drive offsite to backup to overnight but it maybe an overkill.
Similar threads
