Amazon Cloud Storage

Rew

So 762 GB of photos and video uploaded and mega problems. I got various fails during uploads and when I investigated I found out that they had done some deduping of images based on file names so on my HDD I have:

/folder1/image_1 (pic of dog)

/folder2/image_1 (pic of cat)

In my CloudDrive I now have:

/folder1/ (No image!! :eek:)

/folder2/image_1 (pic of dog!!! WTF?!!! :eek:)

This is really really bad....

Loire

Rew wrote: »

So 762 GB of photos and video uploaded and mega problems. I got various fails done up loads and when I investigated I found out that they had done some deduping of images based on file names so on my HDD I have:

/folder1/image_1 (pic of dog)

/folder2/image_1 (pic of cat)

In my CloudDrive I now have:

/folder1/ (No image!! :eek:)

/folder2/image_1 (pic of dog!!! WTF?!!! :eek:)

This is really really bad....

That's not good!!

Rew

Loire wrote: »

That's not good!!

So I rang support and they said it was expected behaviour and that filenames must be unique across your whole CloudDrive. I need to test and make sure I can repeat this but means you need to be really careful what you upload!!

Rew

I did a bit of testing there and cant repeat it so im thinking it was a bug in the uploaded and they have fixed it but still leaves me with a 762GB clouddrive that I need to delete and do over.

Balfey1972

Rew wrote: »

I did a bit of testing there and cant repeat it so im thinking it was a bug in the uploaded and they have fixed it but still leaves me with a 762GB clouddrive that I need to delete and do over.

Can you not delete those folders on the cloud drive and point the desktop uploader to the folder again?

Rew

Balfey1972 wrote: »

Can you not delete those folders on the cloud drive and point the desktop uploader to the folder again?

Of course but uploading 3/4 of a TB takes aaaaaggggeeeesssssss......

I have 100meg up and down but Amazon throttle the uploads (from what i can tell)

Balfey1972

Rew wrote: »

Of course but uploading 3/4 of a TB takes aaaaaggggeeeesssssss......

I have 100meg up and down but Amazon throttle the uploads (from what i can tell)

Sorry what I meant was just the folders where the errors are or are all your photos in one folder?

Major pain in the ass for sure. I've just about half of 1.4tb done

Rew

The errors are across the board. I have huge timelapse folders with tones of duplicate filenames so its trashed things across way too many folders to ever consider trying to fix. Not to worry at leasts they appear to have solved it even if their support claims its a "feature".

mc_grens

I was listening to either the "Improve Photography" to "TWIP" podcast on the way home yesterday and they talked about hidden charges in these services- retrieval fees, early deletion fees, stuff like that. Might be worth reading the small print folks.

Their biggest watch out mind you was the fact that it could take weeks to upload everything, and to be careful if fair usage clauses, etc. with your provider.

flyingsnail

mc_grens wrote: »

I was listening to either the "Improve Photography" to "TWIP" podcast on the way home yesterday and they talked about hidden charges in these services- retrieval fees, early deletion fees, stuff like that. Might be worth reading the small print folks.

Their biggest watch out mind you was the fact that it could take weeks to upload everything, and to be careful if fair usage clauses, etc. with your provider.

Sounds like they are talking about Amazon Glacier rather than this

mc_grens

Could well have been- since I was driving I wasn't listening in too great a detail!

s8n

Loire wrote: »

A long (but worthwhile) read for anyone considering / depending on online storage....

Loire.

Why the need to sign your posts ???

ED E

Using crashplan myself but its sh!t slow.

Would love to use amazon, S3 is great, but the lack of trust no one encryption is a deal breaker.

Reati

PaulieC wrote: »

Just a suggestion - you can buy Microsoft Office 365 for 59.99 per year and get unlimited (yes, truly unlimited, allocated in chunks of 10tb) Onedrive storage. This also allows machine backups too i.e. settings, wallpapers, browser bookmarks etc.

This is what I got as I needed Office anyway - I've over a TB of Files, Backups, Videos and Photos up on OneDrive.

It has a nice sync feature on Windows 8.1 where if you have your drives on your computer (I've 2 1TB drives in a tower) you can have all the files locally on them and it will sync updates / new files to OneDrive. That way my files are always backed up and you can configure that so you don't sync some items.

Deadlie

Microsoft are now offering unlimited cloud storage with their 365 Office packages. It's handy if you need Office anyway, but it's only on the subscription plans. Think it starts at €59 or so, but it's a cheap way if you are a user of Office/Excel etc.

Loire

Loire wrote: »

A long (but worthwhile) read for anyone considering / depending on online storage....

Loire.

Oops, forgot the link:

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking

Loire.

Rew

That article is out of date but there are recent examples. Everyone should be using 2 Factor Auth on every account that supports it, especially on email accounts.