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Everyone should be looking for a backup strategy that involves at least a hot backup and a cold backup, with some sort of offline validation. However this is ea
by henvic 6y ago
Everyone should be looking for a backup strategy that involves at least a hot backup and a cold backup, with some sort of offline validation. However this is easier said than done (because now you've to deal with multiple file systems, decisions about cryptography, lack of interest in creating something that you hope you'll never need, and so on). I wish there was a service (and don't tell me about Backblaze because it's incomplete and doesn't work that well - from my own experience) that would do all these things for you in a reliable and trustworthy way (including giving you snapshots in physical media from time to time - delivering to different addresses, possibly in different jurisdictions, and so on).
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoI have a multi-dimensional backup strategy, which includes “cloudy” backups of my most important assets, using services like GitHub, local hourly NAS (Synology double-redundant RAID-like) incremental backups of my whole system, and running “hot” backups of my system and development volumes; automatically updated every four hours (or on-demand. It's a bootable CCC clone). I seldom need to use anything more than my “hot” backups, but have occasionally needed to restore individual files from NAS. Whether or not I have a backup is never even something I think about at all, which is a big weight off my shoulders. But photos and videos are a different matter from code (my main assets). They require a lot of space. It’s easy for me to be smug about backups; but photographers have a much more intense set of assets.
- ghaff 6y agoA problem with digital media as well is that it encourages you to just save everything but it's easier that way. But as I'm discovering well into the digital era, I wish I had more curated photos and video--though that comes with its own problems.
- fokinsean 6y agoI dread the day I decide to go through all my photos and organize them. It's one reason why I'm so reluctant to move off of google photos, it's sooo easy to find stuff and it groups photos together nicely. But I really want to move my photos off of google.
- henvic 6y agoYes, backing up photos and videos is hard. However, if you do so professionally, you are probably better off not risking losing data so you should take precautions. If you are a hobbyist, it’s also cheaper for you to do so. The problem is lack of a usable and straight-forward solution, in my point of view.