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

Tue Jun 7 01:27:22 BST 2016

>  I don’t know how the first problem could be solved without some sort 
of validation.

I try and handle this problem by creating an archive at set times. A 6 
month or 12 month backup if you will. I also capture the output from 
rsync and dump them into logs. I  then use  grep to extract changes and 
problems and  send them to me via email at the end of the backup. If for 
some reason I have changes that I can't account for I can always go back 
to the archive.

For more recent files maybe not assimilated into the archive, I have a 
rolling daily backup that I can go to if something go awry.

Lots of versions, I know, but disk space is cheap and now that the 
process is relatively automated I don't really encounter problems any more.

On 07/06/16 04:20, Wilkins, Vern W wrote:
>
> 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 <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
>         -- 
>         Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona
>         http://www.daniel-bauer.com
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