<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div></div>I transfer photos and videos from cameras to a laptop where I perform an initial sorting which involves rating, tags and occasionally some edit of the photo itself. The collection on the laptop has a manual backup with rsync to my server (which I run whenever I add new pictures or makes changes to the existing).<br><br>Once finished with sorting, I move the sorted pictures to my server (so I can access them from several “clients” at home). The server, where the photo collection takes about 1.1 TB, runs a daily backup with rsnapshot at a remote server located at a friend.<br> <br>I consider rsnapshot, which basically is an automated way to use rsync, quite feasible. Once setup, it runs daily without any need for me to get involved.<br>It also saves weekly and monthly snaspshots, i.e. I can find accidently deleted files (time machine).<br><br>There are several advantages with the intermediate storage at the laptop. I can bring it and work on the sorting out of home, e.g. on vacation when the camera is heavily used. But as rsnapshot saves old snapshots, I want to be quite finished with the photos when they reach the server. Otherwise I might end up with two versions of every picture, one without tags and rating and one with.<br><br></div>BR<br></div>Anders<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-06 20:20 GMT+02:00 Wilkins, Vern W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vwilkins@indiana.edu" target="_blank">vwilkins@indiana.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">For my web photogallery, database, documents, etc., I rsync all that to a thumb drive kept at work, and also to an external drive at home. For my raw photos, I’m only able to rsync to an external drive at home. I have over 1TB of raw images which creates a real problem for free offsite backup. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Also, for those who rsync, be careful. A while back one of my drives went and I realized that the rsync backups had actually copied corrupted files to the backup. I also had a case where files were deleted on backup before they were successfully copied (they had been moved on the source). I fixed the second problem with a different set of rsync options, but I don’t know how the first problem could be solved without some sort of validation.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Vern<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Digikam-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:digikam-users-bounces@kde.org" target="_blank">digikam-users-bounces@kde.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 6, 2016 1:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <<a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org" target="_blank">digikam-users@kde.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Digikam-users] what do you use for backups?<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I rsync /home/Documents to a thumb drive and /home/Pictures to another<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal">At home, i use a NAS connected to 100Mb ethernet through power supply. An rsync script synchronize at 4:00AM a copy from host computer to the NAS using a smb mount (300Gb). You just need to take a care about the SMB mount options for file naming (UTF8, long file name, rights. etc...) The NAS can be acceded through WIKI by a MAC and a Windows to show images through FS. The NAS support also UPNP, so you can display image with a tablets or a phone.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Gilles Caulier<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">2016-06-06 18:39 GMT+02:00 Daniel Bauer <<a href="mailto:linux@daniel-bauer.com" target="_blank">linux@daniel-bauer.com</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br>Am 06.06.2016 um 16:37 schrieb Michael Fierro:<br>> Dropbox! Dropbox's default behavior is to store a copy of every file on<br>> every computer you back it up to. Plus there's the copy stored on their<br>> cloud. PLUS, if you pay for the extra, they do unlimited file<br>> versioning. It works incredibly well.<br><br><br>This is fantastic if you only take a 64 GB of photos every half a year and use the time in between for the upload :-)<br><br>It is also fantastic if you don't care, that at least dropbox has access to your files.<br><br>Then it's great that your backup lasts exactly as long as dropbox lasts - it wouldn't be the first such service that disappears.<br><br>Even if upload times would increase by 100, I would never, never, never leave my files somewhere that is completely out of my control.<br><br>Dropbox and the like for sure is cool to share some MB of files or for a short time storage of smaller amounts of data. But it is not all all suitable for a save backup.<br><br>Daniel<span style="color:#888888"><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona</span><br><span><a href="http://www.daniel-bauer.com" target="_blank">http://www.daniel-bauer.com</a></span><br><span>room in Barcelona: <a href="https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137" target="_blank">https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137</a><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">_______________________________________________<br>Digikam-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org" target="_blank">Digikam-users@kde.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Digikam-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org" target="_blank">Digikam-users@kde.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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