Comments on: My Photo and Computer Back-up Strategy

By: Curtis Stephens

Curtis Stephens — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:56:18 +0000

Can you tell us more about your home desktop setup? You mentioned that you only use it for photography and there’s “no email, no fonts, no Word documents—a totally clean machine!”. What does a totally clean machine include?

By: Josh Bast

Josh Bast — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:21:27 +0000

Just so you all know, the new DROBO is now FireWire 800 compatible (also 400). I use both Mac and PC so I bought a DroboShare that serves up your files over a wireless (or wired) network to either OS using the SMB network protocol. I love it.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:59:10 +0000

Off site backup being obviously a requirement, my choice goes to automated online backup services such as KoffeePhoto. Its photo dedicated desktop software takes care of the upload of the pictures and, if needed, the restoration of the files. Nothing to care about.

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mac backup — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:32:45 +0000

crazy how there are so many different forms and companies that can back up your info o_O
-jack

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By: Steve Broome

Steve Broome — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:46:12 +0000

Scott: I’d like to know which OWC On The Go drive (size, speed) you use or recommend. I’d use it to bck up my Macbook Pro.

Thanks

By: Frank Thomas

Frank Thomas — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:21:32 +0000

Get article! Apple did a fine job on creating time machine. They took the great unix tools that exist and created a really nice gui tool. Have you had any experiences with Time Machine and running databases on the computer? Probably not a big issue, but I was just curious. But again, thanks for the great article on computer backup.

Frank.

By: miky

miky — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:33:26 +0000

I found this Guide to online backup on Wikipedia! I thought it was extremely helpful so I put it here to share! (http://memopal.clickmeter.com/891931.html)! I just discovered online backup and I think itâ€™s a good way to protect data! Can anyone confirm this???

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:36:34 +0000

To answer Mike Mundy @1912 May 28: it’s not whether you’re paranoid, it’s whether you’re paranoid enough. Scale the level of your paranoia to the value of your data. If you’re a hobby photographer, burn to DVDs and keep ‘em in the dark. If you’re a pro, do like Scott. If you’re a reprographics house, buy a ten grand LTO-4 jukebox, a multi-terabyte SAN, and as many sysadmins as it takes to feed and water them. If you’re Conde Nast…

One thing that can’t be stressed enough is to periodically review your backups to make sure they still work. I got burnt like that 15 years ago and the memory still haunts me. In a bad data-loss incident, you WILL, no kidding, experience psychological trauma. I had real, actual nightmares for weeks. We got the data back, but for a while it looked like a million bucks’ worth or so of work had gone down the drain. I spent the next month designing a triply-redundant backup strategy which worked seamlessly fo the next five years.

When it comes to backups (to paraphrase Terry Pratchett), there’s the easy way and the hard way. The hard way’s pretty hard, but not as hard as the easy way.

By: Fungo

Fungo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:28:57 +0000

I do all that, PLUS copy each picture in crayon to make sure I always have an extra copy. Course, the house burned down that one time and I lost my crayon backup, but that won’t happen now because I have a new asbestos wall liner!