[Digikam-users] Re: On backing up

[Gilles Caulier]

Yes, this service sound like better than other....

Gilles Caulier

2011/2/24 Dmitri Popov <dmpop9mm at yahoo.com>:
> If you are using digiKam on Linux, I highly recommend rsync.net. It's not the
> cheapest solution out there, but their support is exceptional, and you can use
> good old rsync with it. I store all my photos on a B3 personal server
> (http://excito.com/), and I back them up to rsync.net and another B3 using a
> simple Bash script and a cron job. Further
> info: http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/Tutorials_and_How-tos/Backup_with_rsync_and_rsync.net
>
>
> Best,
> Dmitri
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Verizzo <paulv at paulv.net>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 2:27:12 PM
> Subject: [Digikam-users]  On backing up
>
> 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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