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

[Anders Kamf]

I transfer photos and videos from cameras to a laptop where I perform an
initial sorting which involves rating, tags and occasionally some edit of
the photo itself. The collection on the laptop has a manual backup with
rsync to my server (which I run whenever I add new pictures or makes
changes to the existing).

Once finished with sorting, I move the sorted pictures to my server (so I
can access them from several “clients” at home). The server, where the
photo collection takes about 1.1 TB, runs a daily backup with rsnapshot at
a remote server located at a friend.

I consider rsnapshot, which basically is an automated way to use rsync,
quite feasible. Once setup, it runs daily without any need for me to get
involved.
It also saves weekly and monthly snaspshots, i.e. I can find accidently
deleted files (time machine).

There are several advantages with the intermediate storage at the laptop. I
can bring it and work on the sorting out of home, e.g. on vacation when the
camera is heavily used. But as rsnapshot saves old snapshots, I want to be
quite finished with the photos when they reach the server.  Otherwise I
might end up with two versions of every picture, one without tags and
rating and one with.

BR
Anders

2016-06-06 20:20 GMT+02:00 Wilkins, Vern W <vwilkins at indiana.edu>:

> 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
> *Sent:* Monday, June 6, 2016 1:39 PM
> *To:* digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> *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>
> 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>:
>
>
>
> 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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