[Leica] [Leica} Tina's Drobos... Update: All loaded.

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

100% agree - survival risk is the first thing to analyze when dealing with
long term service commitments with relatively small companies - whether you
are looking at purchasing their services, or, indeed, their debt! 😀

The risk is reduced a hundredfold by utilizing the same services with well
capitalized companies, even if their services and response time is not up
to the mark. The key element in this case is the long term stability of the
backup - I do not expect to tamper with this in normal circumstances -
which would make me choose Amazon/Microsoft/Apple/Google for this purpose.

Cheers
Jayanand



On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 10:50 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> The price for Backblaze seems reasonable, but I do not like the automatic
> nature of the backup. And of course as always, one must consider whether
> the company will still be there in 5 years.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
>
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>
> Слава Україні! Героям слава!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 2 Jun 2024, at 19:13, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
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