Rick Funderburg wrote:
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.
At least set file attributes to make these files and directories more
difficult to remove. The user might think about things first if an
error pops up on the screen.
Karl Cunningham
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