[Digikam-users] Re: On backing up

[Gilles Caulier]

I'm just interrested by this post.

Carbonite service
http://www.carbonite.com/en/online-backup-software/how-it-works

is not too expensive : 54$ per computer... but for which capacity in Gb ???

Of course, service do not work under Linux, as usual (i'm sure that
Linux is used in background by Carbonite)

Somebody know an alternative, working under Linux, with attractive prize ?

Gilles Caulier

2011/2/23 Paul Verizzo <paulv at paulv.net>:
> Having almost lost a big box of photos to a fire in 1988, and many hard
> drives dying over the years, call me paranoid.  Pardon me if I weigh in
> on this somewhat off topic topic, but it is a passion of mine.  While my
> experiences and practices are for Windows, surely the open source
> community has similar options.
>
> Backing up once a month is fine if  you don't shoot anything in a
> month!  Anytime I off load a camera to the computer, it gets backed up
> right away.  /You hard drive WILL fail.  Maybe not tomorrow, but
> eventually!  /And I don't erase the camera card until those new images
> are in a third location.
>
> I have a second drive on the computer for backups.  I just saw several
> local vendors selling 2 TB USB drives for $100.  Cost is no longer an
> issue.  I use a simple command box program called xxcopy.  A few
> keystrokes, off it goes.  I can either merely add new material (/bu) or
> clone the second drive to mirror the first (/clone).
>
> Once upon a time I kept a hard drive in my car and I would clone it at
> least twice a month -  if I remembered!.
>
> For over a year I've been using Carbonite service.  For $55/year,
> unlimited storage, automatic backing up, and off site retrieval.
> Usually in minutes, my new images are WAY off site.  OK, now I can erase
> the camera card.  One time I very accidentally erased, yes, my photo
> folder from both my primary and secondary hard drives while cleaning
> things up!   In twelve hours it was all restored from Carbonite.  It's
> not just fire or hard ware failure, there is the human component.
>
> Maybe there is a Linux equivalent of Carbonite, or you can use your own
> web hosting space to hold the back up.
>
> When I went on vacation this month, I took my second hard drive to my
> sister's in a plastic food box.  My house could burn down (see opening
> sentence) and I would still have two copies of everything.  If I were to
> ever lose all my (digital, there are still analog) photos, and my
> writings, I think I'd shoot myself.
>
> I hope this possibly saves a disaster for someone.  Short of nuclear
> demolition, I think my photos are safe.
>
> Paul
>
>
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