[Digikam-users] Re: More on backup

[Peter Shute]

A couple of other people said they keep the images on the card for a while after downloading. My problem with this is that it requires great care not to mix up cards that have been downloaded with cards that haven't. 

I prefer to download and erase immediately while I'm sure of the status of the card. Otherwise I risk erasing a card I haven't downloaded yet, or at least downloading duplicate images.

I can see that having my only copy on a laptop is risky, especially while travelling, but this sounds riskier, for the disorganised, at least.


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From: Julien T <julien.t43 at gmail.com>
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
Sent: Tue Mar 01 17:28:22 2011
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: More on backup

2011/2/23, David Vincent-Jones <davidvincentjones at gmail.com>:
> My experience with off-site backups was not so positive. I found that
> the upload time with today's large images was quite punishing even for a
> single day's run.
>
> I now use a Sata drive to rotate backups and an additional passport
> drive for use while travelling. I alternate backup drives in my bank
> safety deposit box during my monthly visit.

I want to also add my experience as a current traveler
- keep images on memory card and rotate them when full
- copy on computer and classify/rate/tags/...
- rsync to a server all jpg (small enough ~1MB ... not possible for raw ~11MB)
- with exiftool (not possible/quick enough with digikam), select all
file with a rating of at least 1, and make a dvd iso image with
jpg+raw of these file (I handle size manually as I do a symlink dir
image and use dereference to create iso). These dvd will be send by
post to my home.
- If I managed to plan friends on my path, I will ask to have portable
disk to backup everything to my home
- I'm still not sure, to add an extra backup level with a portable
disk with me. extra security, but extra weight too ...

For online offer, I don't know if any of Carbonite/crashplan/... are
fit for traveler around the world. If they only have bandwidth in US
or Europe, it's not really useful.
Didn't check it tough.

Cheers,

Julien
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