On Mar 16, 2006, at 4:52 , Dexter Filmore wrote:
Friend of mine deleted her entire photo collection (or rather, the
shoddy
software from a local online photo service did) and asked me for help.
I guess she would probably be very receptive to the idea of backing
up her photos now (a mixed blessing for sure).
While hardware tends to be fairly reliable these days, most people
still take huge risks by having all of their photos in one place.
Generally, home users have been bad at backing up their systems, but
it is especially scary now because with the proliferation of digital
photos, more and more people have irreplaceable data that they have a
huge interest in keeping for all time. It is somewhat amusing that
because the photos are digital, they could be a lot more resistant to
catastrophe than traditional photos, but as most people treat them,
they are more vulnerable.
Hopefully systems like .mac and Amazon's new S3[1] storage service
will help put offsite backup into the hands of more casual users.
For my own needs, I just implemented a backup system with a friend
using Kuroboxes[2] (small Linux servers) as storage devices. I
backup to my Kurobox using duplicity[3] for encrypted incremental
backup, and rsync the resulting files over to my friend's box. The
vast majority of the bytes I backup are digital photos.
-- Rick
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/104-2619907-2923940?
node=16427261
[2]: http://www.revogear.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=KURO%2DBOX
%2FHG%2DWR&Show=TechSpecs
[3]: http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/
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