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I'm interested in how other photographers are safeguarding their irreplaceable photographic collection from loss or corruption. I've religiously backed up from PC to several 1 TB (terrabyte) external hard drives over the last 10 years, but remain paranoid that one day that will fail too. Some of my earliest CD backups (remember CDs - only 650Mb max - or less than 100 pics in today's money) are also not performing that well when tested.
I've recently moved across to a cloud storage provider, and have just spent the last four days uploading over 200Gb of photo folders to them. At less than GBP £10 per month, with on-line access and folder structures from anywhere with an internet connection, I am now sleeping a little better at night knowing that there is a remote, secure copy of my work, just in case the local fire service ever has need to turn up for real.
Is anyone else using the cloud for this purpose yet? I'd be interested to learn the level of interest and the sort of companies that provide a decent level of storage and access. I'm using LiveDrive for my purposes, who provide a standard maximum of 5 TB of storage.
Cheers - John
I'm interested in how other photographers are safeguarding their irreplaceable photographic collection from loss or corruption. I've religiously backed up from PC to several 1 TB (terrabyte) external hard drives over the last 10 years, but remain paranoid that one day that will fail too. Some of my earliest CD backups (remember CDs - only 650Mb max - or less than 100 pics in today's money) are also not performing that well when tested.
I've recently moved across to a cloud storage provider, and have just spent the last four days uploading over 200Gb of photo folders to them. At less than GBP £10 per month, with on-line access and folder structures from anywhere with an internet connection, I am now sleeping a little better at night knowing that there is a remote, secure copy of my work, just in case the local fire service ever has need to turn up for real.
Is anyone else using the cloud for this purpose yet? I'd be interested to learn the level of interest and the sort of companies that provide a decent level of storage and access. I'm using LiveDrive for my purposes, who provide a standard maximum of 5 TB of storage.
Cheers - John
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