Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"oh darn it the cloud disappeared and there goes my entire body of work!?!" An unexpected dry front move in? I'd have trouble expressing sympathy hearing such a thing. Its like going out of your way to make sure you loose your body of work. Its like "no its impossible to put it on a disk and stick one in my closet." I think we need to take responsibly for our own lives folks. Don't put it on some dumb cloud what's the matter with you guys? Where is it? Whose watching it and how? On 12/17/12 12:14 AM, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: > When you have an offsite backup with a provider, you are at their mercy. If > business goes bad, you could lose everything. I remember when one of the > online photo storage services went belly up and send a notice that you had > just a few weeks to get everything downloaded. Ugh! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leo Wesson > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 9:53 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Tape backup? > > Richard, > > Let me guess, Seagate? > > Leo Wesson > www.leowesson.com > > On Dec 15, 2012, at 7:30, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > wrote: > >> Well one of my 2TB drive in the back up system just gave up the ghost. >> >> I have ~2TB of images right now, and sure to grow >> >> I know there were a few discussions on back up systems for photos, but I >> don't think tape back up got much attention. Anyone using it? >> >> I am more or less down to choosing between tape back up or Amazon Glacier. >> >> The nice thing about Glacier is that it is entirely offsite. The major >> downside is that while it is much cheaper than other online storage, at >> $0.01 per GB per month, with 2TB of data, that's still $240 per year and >> will be more as I take more photos. >> >> The nice thing about tape is that it is cheap enough ($60-$100 per 2 TB) >> that I can make at least one duplicate copy. The downside is that the >> initial equipment purchase costs $1300-$1800 (and up) and I will have to >> find an offsite solution. >> >> The default is to continue with hard drive back up. The major problem is >> reliability. For business data, I have a a RAID netstation and multiple >> back up on different systems, but for photos, doing the same is just not >> fiscally viable. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/