On 9 Nov 2014, at 09:39, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9 Nov 2014, at 09:21, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Nov 8, 2014, at 11:59 PM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I almost lost all of my photos a few years ago when my external drive >>> started to misbehave, so my advice is to make sure you have two drives and >>> keep them synchronised. I keep my "B" drive in a separate building to >>> minimise the risk from fire or burglary. The earthquakes weren't big >>> enough to find the flaw in my plan >> >> Thanks, David. It’s become clear in the course of preparing for this move >> that I need a completely new backup system. Currently I have two 1 Tb >> FireWire drives. Nowhere near enough, especially now that photos, and RAW >> files at that, are accumulating faster than they used to. >> >> I’m thinking of a setup that would provide hot-swappable drives and wifi >> accessibility. > > Not sure what benefit that would give you. Wifi slows things down enormously > compared to a wired external drive. If you're not keeping anything on your > machine's local drive then you're probably better off with 2 wired external > drives and a regular backup job running automatically. This will be both > cheaper and faster than wifi. > > You also need an offsite strategy in case the Big Bad Wolf blows your house > down. > > You could shuffle a couple of backup drives between home and work once a > week, but this relies on you having the discipline to do it, and has the > weakness that at some point both backups are in the same place for a day, and > therefore a temptation for the BBW. > > > Or you could get some cloud storage and let your data trickle-feed up to > there. If you have cloud storage then you don't need your backup external > drive. >
And of course, if your cloud storage is fast enough for you to use comfortably from say LR, you can turn that into your master copy, and your backup in case the cloud service goes belly-up is the copy you keep at home. This way you're not tied to working in the same place as your data. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
