[Digikam-users] Re: On backing up

[Stedtlund]

I don't know if you consider it attractice prize wize or comparable:
https://spideroak.com/

I use the free 2GB for documents and such. Not images though.

Works under Linux .

/Anders

2011/2/23 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 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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