Can picasa store RAW photos? I have about 120G of RAW files to backup.
Flickr is great for displaying photos but is no way to store originals. I
have a similar problem for videos, though I have less of those right now.
I currently use a raided array at my house, and the same at my parent's
house as a backup strategy, but a new disk every few years is looking very
expensive compared to glacier...
Anton
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On Aug 25, 2012 10:45 AM, "Samuel Penn" <sam@???> wrote:
> On Friday 24 August 2012 20:29:01 Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> > On Friday 24 Aug 2012 18:12:02 Benjie Gillam wrote:
> > > My current plan is to just do a few big tar files of various subjects
> > > (Documents/Photos/Development/etc), encrypt and upload once a month. In
> > > between times could use tar's incremental features, though I have no
> > > experience with them.
>
> I do a system backup like this once a week with S3. Documents (such as
> PDFs/eBooks I've downloaded, which I don't care about encrypting) get S3
> rsync'd every few hours.
>
> I did a talk on this early last year at Surrey LUG, so it's a bit out
> of date now:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbZoSnTywR59ZGdxNDdmeDhfOWNxeHozeGYy
>
> > TAR and encryption sound like a good plan. For incremental backups you
> > might want to keep a list (or database, or whatever) of files and
> md5sums,
> > then write a script to compare and backup the ones that have changed
> > (perhaps checking on timestamps too to make things quicker).
> >
> > I have no experience with Glacier, but whether it's preferable to do lots
> > of small uploads will depend on how robust your connection is and how
> > thier pricing works.
>
> The problem with Glacier is there's a really big delay before getting
> access to the files again. I may not want to download data often, but
> when I do, I'd like to be able to do a restore right now.
>
> Currently S3 is costing me a few dollars a month for system backups
> (it could be a lot less, if I could be bothered to tidy up old backups),
> and Google is costing $20/year for 80GB of photo backups in Picasa.
>
> That's well within what I'm happy to pay, so I don't feel a need to
> switch to Glacier, except for use as possibly a secondary backup of
> music, video and photos.
>
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