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I need a better backup solution
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SauRoNZA
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Yeah I realise your specific case is unique, but it's therefore somewhat excluded.
SauRoNZA
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Much better and cheaper fit for purpose Solutions than that.
After spending a considerable amount of time looking for a photo last night I've come to believe I need a better backup solution…
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That's almost five years of photos that I want to backup. Call it 20TB with a growth rate of 4TB per year so it needs to be expandable.
I do have plenty of PC parts so building something out of that is a possibility.
I need to be able to scan through the images from my laptop so wifi is out.
And yes - that old iPod is being used as a mass storage device
Bwana the hoarder...
I'd go with FreeNAS using RAIDZ if you want to safeguard from HDD failure and have the data handy to work from.
Bonus point about FreeNAS, esp if it's just for a single user environment is that you can build it from an old PC, and if the PC fails you can plonk the drives in another quite easily.
but remember the golden rule, A NAS IS NOT A BACKUP™
You obviously want to include a surge protector + UPS too.
Then for paranoia - backup onto 2x external HDDs
and backup monthly new photos/data onto DVD/bluray x2 / x4 copies
I still have data from 1994, the simple trick I've always employed is "multiple copies across multiple devices".
Bonus point about FreeNAS, esp if it's just for a single user environment is that you can build it from an old PC, and if the PC fails you can plonk the drives in another quite easily.
but remember the golden rule, A NAS IS NOT A BACKUP™
You obviously want to include a surge protector + UPS too.
Then for paranoia - backup onto 2x external HDDs
and backup monthly new photos/data onto DVD/bluray x2 / x4 copies
I still have data from 1994, the simple trick I've always employed is "multiple copies across multiple devices".
d0b33
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Seriously, I do design and if you gave me a PNG for printing you'd be without a job.
You don't have to agree, it's a fact, PNG was meant to replace GIF, web (RGB) colorspace etc.
Sure - it was designed as a replacement for gif but it's got amore going for it than just that - for one it (png-24) is not limited to 256 colours.
The jpgs my camera is throwing out are RGB so converting to CMYK is going to have to happen at some stage if I want to print. Most commercial printers can handle that with their eyes closed but I usually do it myself once I have their profile.
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Leonidas
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Do you really need ALL the photos.
My advice for the earlier sporting photos ...
[video=youtube;moSFlvxnbgk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk[/video]
My advice for the earlier sporting photos ...
[video=youtube;moSFlvxnbgk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk[/video]
bwana. I'm assuming you're shooting RAW or JPEG+RAW? If so, wouldn't storing the RAW on Bluray/DVD per-shoot (multiple discs per backup obviously) and then storing the JPEGs /processed photos on a NAS be a good work setup? That way, if you need to go back to the RAW originals you still have them archived and secured.
And keeping the JPEGs/processed stuff on NAS means you can easily flip through them and a good filing system means you can easily locate what disk has what source material.
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And keeping the JPEGs/processed stuff on NAS means you can easily flip through them and a good filing system means you can easily locate what disk has what source material.
My R0.2
bdt
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So howcome no mention of Backblaze, as an offsite/cloud backup and just maybe too as a homebrew storage pod for a near-line copy of the archive?
d0b33
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Sure - it was designed as a replacement for gif but it's got amore going for it than just that - for one it (png-24) is not limited to 256 colours.
The jpgs my camera is throwing out are RGB so converting to CMYK is going to have to happen at some stage if I want to print. Most commercial printers can handle that with their eyes closed but I usually do it myself once I have their profile.
You can't save a PNG as CMYK, and if you plan on printing profesionally expect a few pissed off designers having to convert these PNGs to JPG anyway.
No, you can't but that's not the point. Conversion is going to have to happen at some stage if/when necessary.
Mostly JPGs. Storing them by individual shoot would be too time consuming and I'm thinking more than a little inefficient. I'll have to give it some thought.