3 copies of everything. at least 1 in a safety deposit box. also, i
expect I will have to upgrade the hard drives at some point as the
technology changes.
- Joe
On 1/15/13 10:25 AM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
Yeah I agree with this, but hard drives do fail so data should be on
multiple drives and should also be located in more than one location
so a fire or theft doesn't lead to losing everything.
Not that I follow this in practice but in theory...
--joshua
On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Joseph Spinden wrote:
My "solution" is external hard drives:
1. one-time purchase cost
2. relatively inexpensive
3. not dependent upon the cloud servers. I am not willing to chance
a 1-in-a-100-years failure..
Joe
On 1/15/13 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo wrote:
I'd like to find a "cloud" service for images - problem is, I'd got
approximately 300GB of images going back to 2001. Some duplication,
but mostly lots of RAW files. Dropbox wants $500/year. I need a more
affordable solution Any ideas?
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Arlo Barnes <arlo.bar...@gmail.com
<mailto:arlo.bar...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I got Dropbox mainly for collaboration (sharing datasets and R
files), and now I use it as the central storage location for all
my photos - they go straight from the card (which is then
cleared to make room) to Dropbox through it's automatic transfer
function. I have had no problems, although the occasional horror
story of individual files being lost without a trace has
prompted me to start uploading them to a photoblog.
I use Chrome sync[h] but because the computers I use are
generally somewhat slow (especially with the number of tabs I am
in the habit of opening) I don't often use the extensions that
are synchronized. I am not impressed with the bookmark sync[h],
as old folders that have been deleted on one computer are often
restored from another. Then again, I have somewhat given up hope
on keeping track of things I want to investigate with bookmarks
anyway, as I create just too many. To-do lists have supplanted
them for the most part; I still use Chrome's "save this window
as a folder-full of bookmarks" function to save a browsing/work
session for a time when my computer is less bogged down.
For the most part, though, I have been trying to eliminate the
need for backups altogether. As a student with not much budget
for purchasing memory, and one that uses temporarily loaned
computers and ones that break after only a year or two of use, I
find it much easier to use online services for most program and
data storage - using Google Docs rather than Word or Open
Office, for instance. It makes collaboration and sharing a lot
easier, too - I can worry less about file formats. To pick
another example, instead of using iTunes or WinAmp or VLC
(although I also have the latter for miscellaneous purposes)
with a music library I use Grooveshark.
There are still many things that need to be offline due to the
paucity of Internet access in my house and sometimes at school,
but many things can just be re-found - it is easier for me to
re-download my ebooks, and various programs (Pidgin, GIMP,
Inkscape, Notepad++, Chrome of course, a tuner program, and
others including those mentioned above [Dropbox and VLC]) than
to find and transfer them on a jumpdrive or such. However, I
noticed I have also taken increasingly to putting all my files
in one place - a folder on the desktop - rather than using My
Documents. I even run programs that do not need to alter the
registry and therefore self-install, such as tkMOO, from the
desktop. With all this centrally located it is easier to pick up
and move shop should I need to.
And now I have a website I can put stuff I don't mind being
public in one place, too.
This all might be oblique to your question since I am not using
the pay Dropbox, or Dropbox in a big way at all.
-Arlo James Barnes
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