Hi,
Just heard Joe's search for an online backup solution. As I understood
him, he does not need instant online access to the files ("I like
robots"). My low cost solution would be to buy a large 2TB drive and
put it into a Mac (I guess Windows is not an option in this case). The
drive would then be used to consolidate all the photos. In other
words, all photos from various sources (other laptops, desktops, and
various harddrives) should be copied onto this drive. Then open a
Carbonite account and backup the photos for a flat $55 a year. The
advantage is clearly the price, some of the disadvantages:
- Can only backup internal drives, you need to copy all photos to
this drive
- You cannot easily access the data from other places, this is a
local backup solution only. If you need access/backups from various
computers, you'll need something like dropbox or spideroak, but that's
pricy
Personally, I am running spideroak for all data, but it is running
close to my 100GB limit. I plan to split my data into two tiers. One
tier is that the data I want to easily share between computers like
mp3 files and photos. I'll be able to keep this under 100GB for the
foreseeable future. The other tier will be flac files and home videos
(which kind of kills the Posse's argument that the normal user does
not need TB's of backup). This tier, I plan to backup using something
like Carbonite since it has a flat rate. I've set up my parent's
computer with Carbonite and it was very user friendly (backup default
Windows folders automatically).
<tinfoil hat on>
For Europeans, note that the data will probably be uploaded to the US,
and I don't know if Carbonite falls under safe harbour agreements
between the U.S. and the E.U. Of course, the data is supposed to be
encrypted with your own personal key, but you never know...
</tinfoil hat on>
/grydholt
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