Photo transferring

Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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I have decided to transfer my photos from my HDD which runs my PLEX server (Multimedia) as for one I like to have them handy and two I do not think that HDD will last long and I do not care about losing movies/tv shows. I am transferring 400gb of photos wirelessly and it says it will take 2 days. Will be interesting to see if it does. I could always unplug the server HDD and move it but pffft will go with wirelessly first. I am also waiting on Internet over power plugs to arrive and will probably connect those 2 computers via that and see if there is a marked improvement. Needless to say I need more HDD's for back up and redundancy. So I will be on the look out. My iMac backs up to a 1TB Lacie rugged HDD and my photos are on another 1TB Lacie Rugged. My movies are on a 2TB Seagate. Any ideas or advice?
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
I have redundant backups running all the time. one is a network attached storage. (I would just call it NAS but can't saY that around here.) It backs up each time a file is created. I also do a weekly backup to another drive. This one is just my photos. What I have recently started is a online cloud backup using Carbonite. I really do like this solution. First it is off site so no matter what happens here I have that copy off site. The side benefit is that it also creates the BU at the time the file is created or at least in a few minutes. I can also access that backup anywhere I am including my iPhone. handy for when you are out and about and want/need to see a photo you shot last week.
I have lost a drive before and lost many files and especially photos that I can not replace. My wife is a teacher and for her school files she uses a little Microsoft tool called SyncToy where you can set up folders to sync one place to another. She backs up her school files and then comes home and syncs them to her laptop. then whatever she works on at home she then runs synctoy and backs up the the usb drive and it goes back to school with her. She also runs synctoy to sync her laptop to our shared desktop that is in turn backed up to the NAS drive and to Carbonite.
Her school computer fried and the techs came in and said they would have to replace it and there was no way to save any of the files. They were surprised when she told them that was not a problem. She then told them her backup routine. The said most teachers had no idea what a backup was.
 
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Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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I would love to use online cloud storage but at .80mb/s upload at its fastest I think its not viable. I will be investing in more and more HDD's I think.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Scott Murray said:
I would love to use online cloud storage but at .80mb/s upload at its fastest I think its not viable. I will be investing in more and more HDD's I think.
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I am pretty lucky here. I have about 35mb down and about 5mb up. Still the original upload took a couple of weeks. But not since it does it all the time you don't even know it is happening.
 
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aroy

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At home between my two sons and I, we have five laptops and two desktops. My desktop is a dual 4 core Xeon with space of upto 10 HDD. At present it has 6 connected HDD with a mix of 4x1TB and 2x2TB drives. We also have over years a lot of older 160, 300 and 750GB HDD. In future I plan to expand it 8 x 4TB drives. For storage we have at least 10 USB drives, but have found that long term storage is best done on CD. DVD go bad very fast, unless they are stamped.

The best option still, is the 1TB USB drive. As long as it is accessed once a month, data will stay on it for years. I am planning to program one of the older laptops to "exercise" the backup archival disks once a month. The critical data still goes to CD burnt at a low 8x speed.

Cloud storage is extremely expensive in India due to slow broad band speeds, so ruled out for all but critical stuff.
 
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