Timeline for What options are there for good, cheap online backup of photos?
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| Mar 6, 2020 at 18:54 | answer | added | I-use-IT | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Dec 2, 2012 at 11:55 | answer | added | olive | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 30, 2012 at 18:12 | history | edited | mattdm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
a general backup question would be off topic, of course.
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| Sep 24, 2012 at 14:25 | comment | added | user9817 | Should this question be edited to include Windows based answers or a 'duplicate' Windows based question be created? | |
| Sep 24, 2012 at 8:56 | history | edited | user9817 |
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| Sep 23, 2012 at 17:23 | answer | added | Vassilis | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 18:18 | history | rollback | mattdm |
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| Sep 10, 2012 at 15:48 | history | edited | Designer023 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Found a solution. Might change it down the line so more suggestions welcome!
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| Sep 6, 2012 at 12:51 | answer | added | camflan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 2, 2011 at 20:33 | history | edited | Laura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2011 at 13:03 | answer | added | user | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 9:15 | comment | added | Designer023 | rsync - nice one. For anyone else looking here is the link to a good os x tutorial with rsync egg-tech.com/mac_backup | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 9:10 | comment | added | Designer023 | @drewbenn that is a pretty good idea, but like you say the change control such as SVN and GIT aren't really suited for this kind of storage, but I do like the idea of being to roll back easily. I might see what the software folk recommend. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 9:08 | comment | added | Jon.Griffen | @Designer023/drewbenn - there is a pretty common tool for this called rsync, that does incremental backups. A little googling will find some nice front ends for it. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 4:56 | answer | added | Kendall Helmstetter Gelner | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 2:16 | answer | added | Bradford Benn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 14, 2011 at 9:41 | comment | added | Designer023 | I did just realise that although aperture's library is 120Gb, it is essentially a folder so changes would be just to the new/edited photo's inside and the library indexes etc so hopefully the backup would be smart enough | |
| Feb 14, 2011 at 9:35 | comment | added | Designer023 | @Rowland Shaw - You have a fair point, Ideally something like an online version of Time-machine would be ideal as I can roll back, and recover any corruption (hopefully), but as I am working with an aperture library, I have a feeling that it would have to back up the whole lib each time, which would be slow and fill up a whole drive quickly. @drewbenn's idea of just swapping external HDD's is probably going to be y solution for now. | |
| Feb 14, 2011 at 7:57 | comment | added | BBischof | Recently Thomas hawk went through the different options and blogged about dome of the results. I would look at his blog. I think he settled on crashplan. | |
| Feb 13, 2011 at 20:24 | comment | added | Rowland Shaw | @Designer023 Don't forget that an option that is completely silent will merrily back up corruptions too | |
| Feb 12, 2011 at 18:54 | comment | added | Designer023 | Although not ideal, as I was hoping for it to all work seamlessly in the background and not have to really even think about the backing up, but data speeds for backing up are going to be far to slow, let alone the transfer limits my internet provider has. I think your idea is probably best. - Do you just swap the drives and copy the latest library across and then next time do the same with the other drive? | |
| Feb 12, 2011 at 8:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhotos/status/36339307010736128 | ||
| Feb 11, 2011 at 22:30 | answer | added | LC1983 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 21:20 | answer | added | chuqui | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 18:14 | comment | added | user2910 | Does it need to be online? Would a pair of 250GB external hard drives, one at home being updated and one stored off-site (and swap them every few weeks or whenever you have a new set of irreplaceable photos), fulfill your requirements? That's an upfront cost of around $100 or less, and no maintenance costs, provided you have a place (like at work or at a friend's or relative's house) to store the off-site drive. | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 17:31 | answer | added | Itai | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 16:36 | vote | accept | Designer023 | ||
| Feb 11, 2011 at 16:14 | comment | added | Pharaun | @Leonidas, on the topic of encryption, it depends, but I'll agree that generally its good idea to encrypt. I personally don't bother with encryption of the actual photographs but I encrypt the other data... | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 15:57 | comment | added | Leonidas | If you use online services: don't neglect the importance of encrypting your data before you hand it out to company X. For Dropbox exists a client-side encryptor (BoxCryptor) for example. | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 15:47 | answer | added | Maynard Case | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 14:55 | answer | added | chills42 | timeline score: 15 | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 14:26 | history | asked | Designer023 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |