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Question about your approach: are you able to partition your Backblaze back-up in order to maintain just a minimal set of photos on your local machine? Would
by grvdrm 5y ago
Question about your approach: are you able to partition your Backblaze back-up in order to maintain just a minimal set of photos on your local machine?
Would love to do this:
- Back-up local machine via Blackblaze
- Periodically delete all local photos, save somewhere in BB
- Turn on regular back-up again - keeping both the local stuff (now much smaller) but also the previous bulk save in BB.
- cedricd 5y agoMy answer to maintaining a minimal set of photos on a local machine isn't great unfortunately. The desktop holding all the photos acts like a file server and I connect my laptop to that when browsing images. There's a way to do it that I find somewhat risky: pay a bit extra for permanent storage. Normally Backblaze will remove deleted files in 30 days (I pay for a year). If you do permanent then you can delete your originals from your local machine and Backblaze will keep them presumably forever. That approach makes me nervous personally :)
- grvdrm 5y agoInteresting. Wasn’t aware of that option. And I agree that it feels strange to sign that data over to someone/something in that manner.