Do you use an external harddrive? Any favorites?
Store online?
Anything else.
Just wondering how to best keep these photos around for when the girls grow up.
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Everything is on an external drive, backed up on a second backup drive, and also loaded onto online galleries.
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laptop, dropbox, external hardrive, vzw backup
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We have a server to store data and then use CrashPlan to protect us against drive failure, theft, fire, etc.
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I save everything to our desktop and we back up using Carbonite. I also upload my favorites to Google+, IG, and YouTube.
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I keep them backed up on Google Drive. Really important ones (like our wedding pictures) are backed up on our work server, which is also backed up remotely.
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I save on my laptop and back up with Carbonite. I still feel nervous about losing my photos!
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We save on both laptops, in Dropbox, and on a removable hard drive. Paranoid much, lol?
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Laptop, dropbox, external hard drive. I've been lax about the latter lately though, so it's probably time for a backup.
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Everything is backed up on a external hard drive. Then some on Dropbox; I ran out of space.
What's carbonite? @MrsF: @Andrea:
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@locavore_mama: I think it's like dropbox but DH liked carbonite better because of the way that it's encrypted or... something? Someone correct me if I'm wrong - = computer stuff is my DH's area
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@locavore_mama: Carbonite is a paid service that provides cloud backup for your data. Crashplan is basically the same thing.
Unlike Dropbox, you must keep a copy on your computer, don't rely on Crashplan or Carbonite as an extra drive. However, obviously if you lose your data either through drive loss or accidental deletion, you can restore the file.Dropbox is prohibitively expensive as you increase your storage requirements. For us, CrashPlan is $60/yr and Dropbox was going to cost us $500+.
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@locavore_mama: @MrsF: DH picked it, too. All I know is that it automatically runs and backs everything up.
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We have an external hard drive but I get nervous about a fire or theft so we should look into something else as a back up for our back up.
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Here's a roundup of different cloud storage providers. Usually I hate about.com but this is a decent article.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/maintenance/tp/online_backup_services.htm
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external HD and dropbox... i take no chances with pictures!!
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@sunny: Hm. I don't like that it needs to be first on my computer. I can't update to it via my external drive?
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Your external drive is mounted on your computer right? Eg. You access it via z:\ or something like this?
If so, then it will work.
Or do you have a NAS?
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