[Digikam-users] what do you use for backups?

[Wilkins, Vern W]

For my web photogallery, database, documents, etc., I rsync all that to a thumb drive kept at work, and also to an external drive at home.  For my raw photos, I’m only able to rsync to an external drive at home.  I have over 1TB of raw images which creates a real problem for free offsite backup.  

 

Also, for those who rsync, be careful.  A while back one of my drives went and I realized that the rsync backups had actually copied corrupted files to the backup.  I also had a case where files were deleted on backup before they were successfully copied (they had been moved on the source).  I fixed the second problem with a different set of rsync options, but I don’t know how the first problem could be solved without some sort of validation.

 

Vern

From: Digikam-users [mailto:digikam-users-bounces at kde.org] On Behalf Of Michael
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Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] what do you use for backups?

 

I rsync /home/Documents to a thumb drive and /home/Pictures to another

 

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com> > wrote:

At home, i use a NAS connected to 100Mb ethernet through power supply. An rsync script synchronize at 4:00AM a copy from host computer to the NAS using a smb mount (300Gb). You just need to take a care about the SMB mount options for file naming (UTF8, long file name, rights. etc...) The NAS can be acceded through WIKI by a MAC and a Windows to show images through FS. The NAS support also UPNP, so you can display image with a tablets or a phone.

 

Gilles Caulier

 

2016-06-06 18:39 GMT+02:00 Daniel Bauer <linux at daniel-bauer.com <mailto:linux at daniel-bauer.com> >:



Am 06.06.2016 um 16:37 schrieb Michael Fierro:
> Dropbox! Dropbox's default behavior is to store a copy of every file on
> every computer you back it up to. Plus there's the copy stored on their
> cloud. PLUS, if you pay for the extra, they do unlimited file
> versioning. It works incredibly well.


This is fantastic if you only take a 64 GB of photos every half a year and use the time in between for the upload :-)

It is also fantastic if you don't care, that at least dropbox has access to your files.

Then it's great that your backup lasts exactly as long as dropbox lasts - it wouldn't be the first such service that disappears.

Even if upload times would increase by 100, I would never, never, never leave my files somewhere that is completely out of my control.

Dropbox and the like for sure is cool to share some MB of files or for a short time storage of smaller amounts of data. But it is not all all suitable for a save backup.

Daniel
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