[Digikam-users] Re: On backing up

[DIL23]

I use Perfect Backup -- http://www.perfectbackup.co.uk/

there's a free 1Gb account (which I use) and you can buy bigger ones.

seems very good to me! backups can be automated & easy to get files back (even 
previous versions) & runs on Linux

DIL23
:)

On Wednesday 23 Feb 2011 14:27:03 Stedtlund wrote:
> 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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