Timeline for Is there a good way to manage and store RAW photo files to the cloud? [duplicate]
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| Dec 6, 2013 at 19:08 | history | closed |
AJ Henderson♦ mattdm MikeW Michael C Paul Cezanne |
Duplicate of What options are there for good, cheap online backup of photos? | |
| Dec 6, 2013 at 14:12 | answer | added | Patrick Hurley | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 22:15 | comment | added | Vinny | I agree that this question is essentially a duplicate of the one linked. Is it best to just delete this post? | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 19:17 | answer | added | James | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 18:49 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @Caleb - I guess I saw the core of the question as, is there a better way to backup 45k large files. Time seemed to be the primary concern and for that concern, being images doesn't matter. If it was about how to organize them, or what kinds of files they should upload or what kind of host is ideal for images in general, I'd agree completely. That said, it appears that the majority of people disagree with me, so I'll drop it. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 18:45 | comment | added | Caleb | @AJHenderson There's an obvious general computing aspect to the question, but it's one that's of great importance to photographers and is therefore IMO very on topic here. Sure, you can treat your image files like any other file and back them up to carbonite.com, but maybe a photo-specific solution like SmugMug makes more sense. The question isn't "how do I back up a lot of files," but rather "how do I back up a lot of image files?" One valid answer is "just treat them like all your other files," but that's not necessarily the only answer. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 18:38 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @Caleb - yeah, but at that point it's moving back in to the realm of being a general computing question that is agnostic to photography concerns. If asking what kind of chair I should use when editing photos on-topic? It's an extreme example, but the combined effect is why I felt this wasn't a very good fit. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 18:36 | comment | added | Caleb | @AJHenderson The fact that one answer seems so obvious doesn't mean that there's not a non-obvious approach that might help. For example, there are plenty of cloud-based solutions that back up your files in the background. It may not matter that it takes a week or two to do your initial backup as long as it proceeds unattended and you're not adding data faster than it can be backed up. Or, if your connection isn't the bottleneck a distributed peer to peer system can be a cheaper and speedier solution. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 16:41 | history | edited | mattdm |
On this site that tag would be for taking photos of clouds :)
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 16:35 | answer | added | AJ Henderson♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 16:28 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | JoanneC: that's fair, I guess my main thought is that this basically boils down to "uploading is slow, is there a better way to upload." It really has nothing to do with photography and really isn't a good question in the first place since the answer should be the obvious. Internet upload speeds are generally slow for consumer connections and you just have to wait. There isn't some magical way to improve it. Now a question about how to best work an online backup in to your workflow would be very good or asking about features of a cloud storage that would be helpful for sharing. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 16:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 16:18 | comment | added | Joanne C | @AJHenderson - I'm not convinced. This is a relevant issue to photographers and we do want to be a complete source of information. Essentially, storage and archiving problems are very real for photographers. Now, having said that, this could be a duplicate. There are similar questions on the site. | |
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 15:56 | history | asked | Vinny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |