Hey /p/, I had scare early this morning...
>Editing on several hundred photos
>upload them overnight via Google Drive
>system freezes up at around 2:30am
>45 photos weren't uploaded
>turns out boot SSD failed
So I made as thread on /g/ >>>/g/55163057 and it seems like RAID 1 one and manual NAS back up maybe the solution (as well as getting a reliable SSD). But RAID 1 maybe too difficult since I literally and physically cannot fit more HDDs in my current PC.
Blue arrows are my current work flow. Red is the additional new option.
What do you guys do for back-ups and redundancy?
I have an external hard drive that backs up everything. I've been meaning to do cloud but effort. I had a professor in college who backed up everything on DVD-rom which always seemed a littler crazy. Keep in mind this was back in 2008 and the guy had just moved from film but still.
>>2866629
Actually also considering optical back-ups since I have a Blu-ray burner installed on my editing workstation...
>>2866629
>>2866632
3-2-1 was popularized by a photographer.
3 copies on 2 different media and 1 copy in a different location. An external drive connected to or even not connected but in the same building as your workstation doesn't count as another location.
I'd add that it's not a backup if you haven't restored from it and checked that everything was reproduced properly.
>>2866650
I make sure I have duplicates of the RAW and processed JPEGs.
I have two identical hard drives in my computer used for storage, imported raws and the lightroom catalog files are synced between the two. I guess I could turn it into a proper RAID 1 array, but I haven't bothered. Out of that, the photos I've published are also stored on Flickr as jpgs which are not full size but are pretty high resolution.
If (when) yahoo goes broke and axes flickr then I guess I'll have to move that stuff to another website.
Film scans have the same redundancy plus obviously the original negatives and whatever contact prints and enlargements I've made.
I'm not too worried about making more backups than that, if my house burns down or whatever and I lose it all then I guess that's fine.
>>2866653
>>2866654
Having lost files and their backups when the CS dept.'s sever room got trashed, I have to emphasize that if it isn't in a different building, it's not a backup. That alone makes RAID not a backup. And seriously. if you don't routinely restore from backup and check file integrity, you'll find yourself missing a lot of work you didn't know you missed.
>>2866655
Maybe a PO Box or bank safe then?
I use a dedicated 4 bay NAS box with 8TB (16TB total) in RAID 1. I share the space with a friend in another city that has the exact same setup so our work is mirrored in two locations. It was steep to setup but worth it, you can probably get away with a 2 bay in RAID 1 for 4TB total.
>>2866656
That or a friend who's in the same boat and will store your backups at their place in exchange for you storing their backups at yours. I'm not paranoid enough to insist on a different city, although if real money were involved, because I had a photography business, I would would do the bank vault in another city for my off-site storage. Even now anything I can't reproduce is on my work system, on off-line optical or solid state storage elsewhere in my house, and also at my brother's place 800 miles away. You can substitute paid cloud storage for the distant friend, but only after you've made a local copy (See OP's issue.). Do I sound really paranoid? I'm sure I do, but I had to tell several full Professors in my department that the best we could do was restore their home directories as they had been 5 weeks ago. It's been 25 years, and I still have the scars.
Backblaze and RAID is all you need
Get an external 4 bay USB3 enclosure.
Exactly like a RAID enclosure but without the RAID... because baby's first raidmistake is assuming RAID is for backup when in fact it's for redundancy and speed.
If you want backup just feed a NON-RAID enclosure 3TiB drives and use rsync to duplicate your photos directory.
Ideally make one backup each shoot, and update another duplicate only every few weeks/months.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=orico+4+bay+usb3+external+drive+enclosure&client=ubuntu&hs=mqG&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzwOf8jbbNAhXr64MKHWbFC4MQ_AUICSgC&biw=1216&bih=578
I just found an old HDD that I've added to my back up regimen while I try to sort this shit out. Right now have a clone of the clone HDD. Still need to get a new boot/OS SSD though.
>Sakura referring to Eggy as "this guy"
I hope a bitch is getting slapped soon.
>>2866818
I'm a girl.
Main rule of thumb I go by is "if there's less than three copies, it doesn't exist"
Personally wouldn't store raws on a DVD....but it never hurts to have an extra copy of finalized images. I keep DVD 's with old photos and important information (financials and whatnot) in a safe deposit box at my post office.
Especially since they are loads more reliable than magnetic/flash mediums. Corruption practically doesn't exist, and the only way I've fucked optical discs up was by scratching them.
Apart from that, I store my stuff on:
- HDD located at home
- Portable HDD in laptop bag
- USB thumbdrives kept in a watertight box.
Takes about 2 minutes to back up a day's work..
>>2866836
You only wish you flaming faggot
I have everything on a 1Tb Samsung have drive, but then again I only post shit on tumblr and here.
>>2866625
It's not the fastest, but I've gone to using Drop Box for everything. The initial upload of everything too fucking weeks, but I like the fact that it's automatic.