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Oh, I'd throw them away in a blink, If I were not lazy: Almost after every shoot, people come back "remember that one photo, where I smiled at sth? I'm very se
by eurekin 3y ago
Oh, I'd throw them away in a blink, If I were not lazy:
Almost after every shoot, people come back "remember that one photo, where I smiled at sth? I'm very sentimental about that, cause it's [some important thing to them]", which necessitates the need to hold on to every photo taken on the session. So no real deletes here, even if it came out technically wrong (blurry, blown out, etc.).
Those requests lessen, but don't die down completely. Especially with cyclic events, organizers have this habit of a asking for things done exactly year ago.
Some just say: "hey, I remember you taking a photo of me then and then" for their dancing portfolio in my case.
Especially for videos, which can be a constant flow of editing requests, for supercuts and etc.
Now, if I were really smart, I'd just have some good way to archive after two years, and delete after - let's say three years. In practice though, there are so many unforseen circumstances that a habit of "never delete anything" forms really easily.
It's just a lot easier and cheaper to buy another drive instead of culling 10k of photos every once in a while, especially if external confirmation is involved.
- robertlagrant 3y agoYou could also back up to something like AWS Glacier. The cheapest tier (access less than once a year) is $1/TB/month. Maybe if you kept thumbnails locally, you could push all the data up and only pull it as and when you needed it.
- nik736 3y agoHave fun paying a fortune if you need to get those files again.
- robertlagrant 3y agoIf you need all of them, and can wait 5-12 hours, that appears to be free to request and transfer? Or am I misreading[0]? [0] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/glacier/pricing/#Retrieval_request_pricing https://aws.amazon.com/s3/glacier/pricing/#Retrieval_request... <- under "Bulk"
- nik736 3y agoFree retrieval pricing, but not free transfer. Transfer is starting at $0.09 per GB :-)
- robertlagrant 3y agoAaaah I see : - ) still, if it's only very occasional "do you remember that photo?" queries, that shouldn't add up to any significant cost. But a full retrieval - yeah. Interesting how the price ramps up!
- mkesper 3y agoThis does not include data transfer pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/de/s3/glacier/pricing/#Data_transfer_pricing https://aws.amazon.com/de/s3/glacier/pricing/#Data_transfer_...
- aaronax 3y agoFor "expedited" retrieval it is $0.01 per request plus $0.03 per GB. Doesn't seem like a fortune. And there are retrieval options for 1/10th the cost.
- nik736 3y agoTransfer is starting at $0.09 per GB.
- aaronax 3y agoThe exact same as transfer out of normal S3? Don't get me wrong, I am as big of an AWS pessimist as one is likely to stumble across. I guess I could reinterpret your original comment as "Have fun paying a fortune if you need to get those files [out of AWS] again." instead of my original interpretation "Have fun paying a fortune if you need to get those files [out of Glacier] again." Agree!
- op00to 3y agoTotally understandable! As a service provider, you want to be able to fulfill those requests because it will make you their go-to person for life. Pretty cheap compared to the benefits you can get. Despite constantly crowing at researchers in my past life that they will lose all their data ... it only happened once or twice, and both times was related to theft and not drive failure. I wonder if you could sell a type of "archive protection plan" as an add-on to your work. It's like $70 a year to store 500GB on Glacier. I am sort of assuming each shoot is 500GB? You could guarantee access for those customers who want it. If we're being honest with each other, I would do the exact thing you're doing and focus more on my business. :)