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Steve Tinetti
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p.3 #1 · How do YOU back up?

Beware of RAID - the arrays (firmware, etc) fail far more often than the physical hard drives but the result is the same. I do not use DVDs. I download to external, backup on another external using syncback SE on manual mode. I also use Pictage for wedding online hosting/backup of JPEGs, but do not use any other form of off-site backup. I have two more drives used for archive and archive backup. All backup and archive drives turned off until backup/archive needed.

Dec 23, 2008 at 10:01 PM

Gary Harfield
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p.3 #2 · How do YOU back up?

I posted info from smugmug, and not one comment, and the info given by smugmug cannot be beat. So I will post it once again.

Your priceless photos are stored in multiple datacenters, in multiple states, and at multiple companies.

So, how does your current backup system, beat that?

Oh and not only are my jepgs on smugmug, but I have the raws/jpegs on external HD's and also the image processer person I have also keeps raw/jpeg of my stuff.

From what you guys have posted seems to have more work involved then anything else. A smugmug pro account is 149.00yr (I got in at 99yr, 3 years ago.)

You get alot for 149.00, I call it piece of mind.

Dec 24, 2008 at 02:42 AM

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p.3 #3 · How do YOU back up?

Gary Harfield wrote:
I posted info from smugmug, and not one comment, and the info given by smugmug cannot be beat. So I will post it once again.

Your priceless photos are stored in multiple datacenters, in multiple states, and at multiple companies.

So, how does your current backup system, beat that?

Oh and not only are my jepgs on smugmug, but I have the raws/jpegs on external HD's and also the image processer person I have also keeps raw/jpeg of my stuff.

From what you guys have posted seems to have more work involved then anything else. A smugmug pro account is 149.00yr (I got in at 99yr, 3 years ago.)

You get alot for 149.00, I call it piece of mind.

Gary's my buddy and he sold me on SmugMug Pro account earlier this past year when I did have a hard drive failure.

Do not trust harddrives... keep as many backups as reasonably possible. Your business depends on it.

-tmiller
Red Vine Studios
http://redvinestudios.com

Dec 24, 2008 at 02:46 AM

Matt Khoury
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p.3 #4 · How do YOU back up?

get a drobo

Dec 24, 2008 at 05:30 AM


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