[Digikam-users] Re: On backing up

[David Talmage]

On Wed Feb 23  8:27 , Paul Verizzo paulv at paulv.net> sent:

> ...
>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 
> ...
>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 
> ...
>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 
> ...

I would be sad if my photo collection disappeared.  My solution is a different
from Mr. Verizzo's. It costs more but I don't have to worry about a third party
who holds my valuable assets remaining in business.  Also, it's a general backup
solution, so I can protect more than my pictures.

I manage my photos using my computer and a pair of NAS boxes.  One of the NAS box
is in my home and the other is at a friend's house several miles away.  When I
copy pictures from my camera to my computer, I also copy them to the local NAS
box.  This gives me a second, local copy.  Every night, the local NAS box copies
the new and changed files to the remote NAS box using rsync.  This gives me
off-site backup.

Once in a while, I rsync all of my pictures between my computer and the local NAS
box to be sure that any metadata I might have changed in them gets backed up, too.

I minimized the pain of the initial rsync between the two NAS boxes by doing it
at home.

Dave