Backup

[ntruj]

I'm feeling pretty good right now. I just finished with a complete backup of all of the photos, scans, pdf's of photo books etc. My full aperture library has been broken down and backed up in three places.
Maybe I'm too obsessive.
What are your backup strategies? I would love to hear some good ideas, maybe something I've missed.

 

[segedi]

I usually wait until someone sends a post like this and reminds me... so thanks!

I'm thinking of doing an online backup, but it will take forever...

 

[greyelm]

I have a Mac pro with two identical hard drives and I do a daily clone of the boot drive. I also have the OS X Time Machine running hourly onto a 1TB USB drive. Finally I have a subscription to Carbonite that makes a cloud backup of my pictures in real time i.e. every time I save a new image to my HD it starts to copy up to the cloud. I also upload some images to photobucket (reduced size) which I use for linking to.

 

[benmacphoto]

I have an older Power Mac G5 that I use to back up my MacBook Pro, and an external hard drive to back up the back up.

 

[ntruj]

I have a Mac pro with two identical hard drives and I do a daily clone of the boot drive. I also have the OS X Time Machine running hourly onto a 1TB USB drive. Finally I have a subscription to Carbonite that makes a cloud backup of my pictures in real time i.e. every time I save a new image to my HD it starts to copy up to the cloud. I also upload some images to photobucket (reduced size) which I use for linking to.

I try to clone my hard drive once a week at least. Time machine is also running.
I am curious about Carbonite. It seems like a great way to make incremental, background backups.

 

[ntruj]

I've always been told that it's not truly backed up unless there is an off site copy. Right now my hard drive clone is in a fire safe.

 

[ChrisN]

2tb internal drive for data.

2tb internal drive for backup #1. (automatic daily backup)

1tb internal drive for backup #2. (will be upsized when necessary) (daily)

1tb external drive (WD Passport) for backup #3. (weekly, lives in my daily carry bag)

32gb USB drive on keyring for critical documents backup (weekly or as necessary)

Backups created with Syncback.

 

[Ming Rider]

I usually wait until someone sends a post like this and reminds me... so thanks!

I'm thinking of doing an online backup, but it will take forever...

Entrusting my stuff to a strange online company, is to me so wrong. Like iCloud etc.

They have all your data and everyone elses, of which they have access to.

 

[greyelm]

I try to clone my hard drive once a week at least. Time machine is also running.
I am curious about Carbonite. It seems like a great way to make incremental, background backups.

Carbonite only keeps the latest version of a file, it doesn't keep earlier versions. This is from their site.

"Carbonite backs up changes to your files once every 24 hours. Your first complete backup will take some time, but once it is complete, updates to your backup usually take only a few minutes. If you have a large file that changes frequently (such as an Outlook mailbox file), the entire file will be backed up once, and only changes made to the file will be backed up after that.
For example, if you have a 400MB file and Carbonite backs it up completely, and you then make 30MB worth of changes to that file, the next time Carbonite backs up that file it will only need to upload the 30MB worth of changes and not the entire 430MB."

 

[sevo]

They have all your data and everyone elses, of which they have access to.

Encrypt it, then.

 

[ntruj]

Entrusting my stuff to a strange online company, is to me so wrong. Like iCloud etc.

They have all your data and everyone elses, of which they have access to.

This is always in the back of my mind.

 

[Ming Rider]

Encrypt it, then.

Oh yeah. Sorry. 🙂

 

[Roger Hicks]

All my M8 and M9 pics are imported simultaneously to two external hard drives.

Cheers,

R.

 

[kubilai]

Ask Philip Plisson

Ask Philip Plisson

I usually wait until someone sends a post like this and reminds me... so thanks!

I'm thinking of doing an online backup, but it will take forever...

Ask Philip Plisson's advice http://ylovephoto.com/en/2010/09/25/dramatic-fire-for-philip-plisson/
http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuLocale_-Philip-Plisson-30-ans-de-ma-vie-partis-en-fumee-_40740-1516853------56260-aud_actu.Htm

He is back, but after terrifying hard work
http://www.photo.plisson.com/

 

[dufffader]

All photos on a Synology NAS with file duplication. Once every two weeks I bring back a 2Tb HDD stored offsite (office) and do a complete backup of the NAS. I've had a Windows Home Server NAS crap out of me before, making recovery of the files laborious.

My main mac stores all the lightroom files and that is backed up to an external Time Machine and also to Carbonite.

 

[kubilai]

I worked 30 years in I.T.

Do not store backup (at least weekly backup) in the same place than the computer.

 

[david.elliott]

i have a hard drive (not off site) that i back everything up to. i also use carbonite. in situations where i care about earlier versions... i just save as x and whoa whoa i have two files and versioning 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

Ok, I need to store my backups backup elsewhere. Thanks all.

 

[smbilgin]

I print all the keeper ones. Digital or film, doesn't matter. So if all my digital files and negatives are gone; I will still have my prints. That is my back up 🙂

 

[Vince Lupo]

This is what I'm currently using, and seems to work well:

http://www.droboworks.com/Drobo-5D.asp