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What I find work best for storing data is a regular USB drive. With no software like Lightroom, no NAS. Just a disc, you move data with a regular file manager.
by tomaszs 5y ago
What I find work best for storing data is a regular USB drive. With no software like Lightroom, no NAS. Just a disc, you move data with a regular file manager.
You don't get all the cool features, but process is pretty safe and you don't worry about hackers because it is offline most of the time.
- tikkabhuna 5y agoHow do you protect yourself from losing data when the drive breaks?
- kylehotchkiss 5y agoArq.app can backup external disks to most of the big cloud storage providers really well. Unlike Backblaze, they don’t delete these backups if you don’t connect your drive for a specific amount of time. I’ve used Arq to backup about 2TB of external drives to AWS Glacier. It even let me set the encryption key for the data myself!
- jnieminen 5y agoHow is your experience with restoring? Have you had expensive data retrieval costs?
- kylehotchkiss 5y agoI used to backup with Arq to S3 and the restores were very fast. With Glacier, Arq initiates the data retrieval and waits for file availability in the UI. Glacier can take a day or so, laptop needs to be open and connected to internet during the time for the transfer to complete. Given I'm primarily backing up external drives, I find this UX not an issue, but if you wanted backups with instant accessibility, backing up to S3 really isn't that pricy.
- tomaszs 5y agoI have second backup disk that has snapshots of the backup disk. It is unlikely two disks from two manufacturers will break in the same time. So it gives me fairly good level of safety