Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information