Back ups - When last did you back up your photos?

[swift412]

No excuses! Go do it now!

 

[bwana]

Hourly backups

 

[koffiejunkie]

Hourly backups

+1

Plus nightly to JungleDisk, plus regularly to two seapare external disks with SuperDuper..

 

[Brawler]

About once a week I back up everything (not just photos to an external HDD)

 

[Mier]

About weekly. I use AllwaySync sync my Desktop PC and my HTPC via wifi and then also to external HDD.

 

[ChrisJ]

Daily onto external hdd's at home and weekly onto tape and then into the fire proof safe at work

 

[swift412]

I shouldn't underestimate you guys

 

[undesign]

Daily, but off site backups not often enough.

 

[bwana]

All I need to do is figure out how to upload 3TB+ of images to the cloud and I'm set . . .

 

[MadMailMan]

All I need to do is figure out how to upload 3TB+ of images to the cloud and I'm set . . .

Is it still cheaper to fly to Hong Kong or somewhere in Japan and upload at a Intewebz cafe than do it in South Africa?

 

[blaaislaai]

Never. However most stuff is saved on the PC and Phone

 

[koffiejunkie]

All I need to do is figure out how to upload 3TB+ of images to the cloud and I'm set . . .

Which cloud are you aiming for?

 

[bwana]

Is it still cheaper to fly to Hong Kong or somewhere in Japan and upload at a Intewebz cafe than do it in South Africa?

It's not the cost (we have more affordable uncapped accounts than we used to) but the time involved in uploading 3,145,728mb on a line that seems to be capable of 0.41Mb/s (according to speedtest.net).

Maybe someone wants to do the math?

Which cloud are you aiming for?

Let me solve problem (A) first then I'll move onto that.

 

[koffiejunkie]

It's not the cost (we have more affordable uncapped accounts than we used to) but the time involved in uploading 3,145,728mb on a line that seems to be capable of 0.41Mb/s (according to speedtest.net).

Maybe someone wants to do the math?Let me solve problem (A) first then I'll move onto that.

710 days, assuming that's 0.41mbit/s and not mbyte/s

 

[bwana]

710 days, assuming that's 0.41mbit/s and not mbyte/s

Thanks. I'm pretty sure its megabits

So all I have to do it put my photography on hiatus for two years and I'm set

 

[koffiejunkie]

Some of the online storage providers will let you send a drive in - I think BackBlaze does this, although their upload speed was impractically slow from the UK, even for my humble 160GB image library. Seems you have to be in the US to make effective use of them.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Speaking of upload speeds, my BT line died - I don't even get a dial-tone. But somehow my ADSL is still working, but just slower - more or less S.A. speeds

 

[medicnick83]

I haven't done this in a while, I must actually burn my photos to a DVD ASAP.

Thanks for the reminder buddy!

 

[bwana]

Some of the online storage providers will let you send a drive in - I think BackBlaze does this, although their upload speed was impractically slow from the UK, even for my humble 160GB image library. Seems you have to be in the US to make effective use of them.

I've thought about this but came to the conclusion that by the time I've bought and shipped the drives I might as well given up the idea of the cloud and just deposited them at the in-laws

 

[koffiejunkie]

I've thought about this but came to the conclusion that by the time I've bought and shipped the drives I might as well given up the idea of the cloud and just deposited them at the in-laws

I think by the time you've shipped the drives, the provider has received them, and uploaded them, ready for you to do your first sync, you'll be so far behind already, you'll never catch up.

I think in your situation, your best solution might be to leave a big-enough NAS type device attached to a computer at your in-laws and abuse the uncapped local ADSL-to-ADSL transfer. It might work out cheaper than using overseas based services anyway.