File Back Up System for long term storage
I'm wondering how you all back up your data on your computers. I currently use icloud and Google Drive as redundant cloud storage for pictures and videos...and... I recently lost some videos on t...
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FIrst, great question that too many don't ask until it's too late.
Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. The rest depends on how much date you need to backup but should include onsite and offsite. I have 500GB of photos alone and they are one of my most prized physical posessions.
My backup is concerned with two things.
1. Whole computer backup
2. Documents and photos that I might want to access.
For whole computer backup,
I use an external drive with Time Machine and Carbonite as primary onsite and offsite backup. Additionally, I clone the laptop using SuperDuper before any OS updates. A clone is the easiest way to restore and I can run the old OS off the external.
For user generate files, I use another external drive and copy documents and photos to it. Since my documents change, I just delete and recopy to update this backkup.
For photos, I used folders for each year with subfolders for individual shoots (ie. 2012-10 Yosemite). This makes it easy because I just need to copy new folders to the external unless I made edits to old photos. I also use the free storage from Microsoft OneDrive.
Finally, when I go to my in-laws (once every year or two), I back-up photos to a hard drive that I keep there as a physical off-site backup not tied to the cloud.
Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. The rest depends on how much date you need to backup but should include onsite and offsite. I have 500GB of photos alone and they are one of my most prized physical posessions.
My backup is concerned with two things.
1. Whole computer backup
2. Documents and photos that I might want to access.
For whole computer backup,
I use an external drive with Time Machine and Carbonite as primary onsite and offsite backup. Additionally, I clone the laptop using SuperDuper before any OS updates. A clone is the easiest way to restore and I can run the old OS off the external.
For user generate files, I use another external drive and copy documents and photos to it. Since my documents change, I just delete and recopy to update this backkup.
For photos, I used folders for each year with subfolders for individual shoots (ie. 2012-10 Yosemite). This makes it easy because I just need to copy new folders to the external unless I made edits to old photos. I also use the free storage from Microsoft OneDrive.
Finally, when I go to my in-laws (once every year or two), I back-up photos to a hard drive that I keep there as a physical off-site backup not tied to the cloud.
