Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Definitely hats off to Frank for his six time-zone support with Tina! Amazing! I want to put in a word for Back Blaze as an off-site backup. It?s a one-price for as much was you have to backup service and it?s great. If you have a massive casualty they?ll send you your files on hard drives or if you need to just find a single file they?ll do that over the network. I?ve done both. Plus they do a periodic report on which hard drives have the best failure rates. Since they have acres of them and hard drive reliability is vital to their business the data is meaningful. I have NOTHING to do with this business save being a happy customer. You can find them at: https://www.backblaze.com/ Having a layered approach to backing up is really important. My photographs live on two RAID 5 arrays. Both of those are backed up to local hard drives. Those are also backed up to Back Blaze. My important non-photographic data are backed up to dual Time Machine drives (I?m an Apple guy and Time Machine is free), plus I image my system drive with Carbon Copy Cloner to another local drive. Suspender and belt. Everything is backed up to Back Blaze. I have a few images that I have kept on AWS Glacier storage. I SHOULD - but do not - cycle backup drives into a safe deposit box because . . . hassle. I?m paying my money and taking my chances. If you think photos eat up storage you should try video! And if you really want to think about oodles of data I urge you to read up on the Rubin Space Telescope that will be doing whole sky images with the worlds biggest camera (for astronomy at least.) The telescope will generate 24 Terabytes of data every 24 hours. You can read about the camera here: https://rubinobservatory.org/explore/technology/camera Happy Sunday! Adam Bridge Davis, CA > On Jun 2, 2024, at 2:07?AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> > wrote: > > A hero and a gentleman! > > Brilliant job. I hadn't realised until this morning that you were > operating all this out of Hawaii! > > Fantastic. > > Peter