Storage space for photo's

adox

Alanstrainor wrote: »

You can throttle the upload so it doesn't eat it all. But for starts it might be an idea to give it as much as possible.

Signed up last night and started uploading unthrottled. Started backing up last night around 10am and at 7.00am this morning it had backed up over 25GB. I`m happy enough with that - over 50GBs a day. At that rate I should be done in 8 or 9 days.

milkjunkie90

mollybird wrote: »

Ive always been a keen photographer and have hundreds of photo's. My husband got me a DSLR camera last year so as you can imagine my photo's have doubled within the last year. So im quickly running out of space on my laptop for all the photo's im taking.

wondering if anyone would have any good suggestions on what would be the best place to store my hundreds of photo's. somewhere that would be handy that i could look at them if i ever wanted to or to copy over to something or to simply email to family and friends

thanks

Flickr now allows you to upload full resolution photos and gives you up to 1tb of storage space for jpegs. Only problem is you cannot backup your RAW files, i use an external hard drive for that

Myksyk

I signed up to Backblaze with 600 GB to upload ... My speedtests tell me I have a fairly consistent 15mb upload but I don't have that when Backblaze measures my upload speed to their server ... more like 2-6mb. After 7 days I'm one third of the way through the upload and that's leaving my Mac on 24/7 at full throttle! Mind you it has a made me go into Lightroom and delete almost 12,000 redundant photos ... a well overdue task.

Myksyk

My upload (on continuously for three weeks) finished this evening!

adox

I bought a 2TB external drive and am using it for films, tv and lossless music.
Only bought it last week, connected it to the Mac and moved some stuff over and then added it as an external drive for back up with Backblaze.

Its fantastic that you can add an external at any time at no extra cost. It already seems like very good value without that addition.

fret_wimp2

adox wrote: »

I bought a 2TB external drive and am using it for films, tv and lossless music.
Only bought it last week, connected it to the Mac and moved some stuff over and then added it as an external drive for back up with Backblaze.

Its fantastic that you can add an external at any time at no extra cost. It already seems like very good value without that addition.

Its not a full solution though. What happens if your house is burgled and your laptop & the backup drive are stolen?

A full backup solution accounts for this also, by keeping a 3rd copy somewhere away from your house, such as a 3rd drive you keep in your office, or a copy of everything in the cloud.

Alanstrainor

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

Its not a full solution though. What happens if your house is burgled and your laptop & the backup drive are stolen?

A full backup solution accounts for this also, by keeping a 3rd copy somewhere away from your house, such as a 3rd drive you keep in your office, or a copy of everything in the cloud.

They say they added it to backblaze...which is a cloud backup solution. If you lose everything, just login and download your stuff.

fret_wimp2

Alanstrainor wrote: »

They say they added it to backblaze...which is a cloud backup solution. If you lose everything, just login and download your stuff.

fair enough! the way it was phrased, It sounded like backblaze was some backup software, didnt realize it was a cloud solution.

My bad, Carry on...

dirtyghettokid

i'd love to try out backblaze, but my bandwidth limit is capped 70gb a month...and when i have 500gb to cloud store.. that would take an eternity to upload via throttling!
right now just have stuff stored on 2 x 2TB external HD, but i am still nervous with that setup!

adox

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

i'd love to try out backblaze, but my bandwidth limit is capped 70gb a month...and when i have 500gb to cloud store.. that would take an eternity to upload via throttling!
right now just have stuff stored on 2 x 2TB external HD, but i am still nervous with that setup!

Yeah there is an option to throttle the upload or even schedule it. It would take you a long time but you dont even notice it working in the background. It had no affect on my speeds. It would take you a few months though for the initial back up.

They give a 15 day free trial.

Also how the hell have you a cap of 70GB???

dirtyghettokid

adox wrote: »

Yeah there is an option to throttle the upload or even schedule it. It would take you a long time but you dont even notice it working in the background. It had no affect on my speeds. It would take you a few months though for the initial back up.

They give a 15 day free trial.

Also how the hell have you a cap of 70GB???

is that good or bad? i live in the sticks, so only have ripplecom. they cap us at 70gb. used to be dongle internet, which was hideous .. had 20gb cap then, but couldn't even upload a 500kb picture half the time.

with what we have now, just by watching some netflix and ordinary internet usage, we use most of our monthly bandwidth.

adox

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

is that good or bad? i live in the sticks, so only have ripplecom. they cap us at 70gb. used to be dongle internet, which was hideous .. had 20gb cap then, but couldn't even upload a 500kb picture half the time.

with what we have now, just by watching some netflix and ordinary internet usage, we use most of our monthly bandwidth.

70GB would seem incredibly small in this day and age, although sounds like you don't have many options for providers.

Alanstrainor

I'm not familiar with ripplecom, but I can bet the upload speeds will be dire. And with caps, a cloud backup solution is just not feasible.

With that much data to backup, the only thing I can think of would be to purchase another portable and high capacity drive, and do a big copy and give it to a friend, family member etc to keep. A bit messy, but it is workable. Incrementing your backup every 6 months or so.

dirtyghettokid

yea our download speed is 8mb max, 1mb up max. it's actually amazing compared to the dongle **** we had to use for years.
i'm hoping that i don't live up here forever, so that eventually cloud storage will be a feasible plan for me

Reati

I got an Office 365 Personal subscription to have Office at home and it came with 10TB of storage space. It's meant to be going unlimited according to this blog post. http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/27/onedrive-now-unlimited-storage-office-365-subscribers/ Not bad for 79 quad a year.

The only thing is you want a hell of an upload speed for the first batch backup and I can't get it to connect to Lightroom so I have a local copy of my files on a HHD too. But if that dies everything is in the cloud at least.

Bears and Vodka

If any of you are students, or still have access to an educational email address (aka one that ends with @tcd.ie etc.) you get unlimited Google Drive storage. Currently backed up about 30GB worth of NEF's. It's taking a while but it's worth it in the long-run.

almorris

The clouds great, unless you live in the bog like me and it becomes a no go.