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#21 ChrisG

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Posted 19 October 2016 - 10:33 am

For me, digital photos.  In the old days you'd you'd shoot off a roll of two of 36 when you go on holiday, and then get them developed and put them in an album.  These days I'll take hundreds (most of them will be crap) on a week away.  I've got GB's of the things, and use them as screensaver as well as having a digital photo frame.

 

PC backs up to a NAS (WD Mybook), which I don't consider to be a proper backup as it's still vulnerable to fire/theft/flood/virus, and then I back up every so often to a USB hard drive that I store at work.


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#22 dmmsta

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Posted 19 October 2016 - 05:49 pm

Data loss is significant in this day & age.

 

There are so many offerings for looking after your data.

 

Start with the basic 3-2-1 rule of thumb.

https://www.backblaz...ackup-strategy/

 

If you have Amazon Prime then their Cloud Storage is good for photos (unlimtied), but has a limit on files.

 

It really comes down to the amount of data, and it's important.

Personally I have all the families digital photos in 5 locations...2 at home, then 3 separate cloud providers.

I don't care if I lose music or movies downloaded, but I've been taking digitial photos for at least the last 13yrs, and lossing those and the memories they contain (children growing up, friends birthdays weddings etc) would be a significant loss - irreplaceable.

 

Dpending on how techy you are Amazon Glacier is a good choice for "long term" archive.  Google Drive isn't bad, pricing is fair, but there are others...


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#23 fixitsan

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Posted 19 October 2016 - 06:59 pm

All these home servers and dedicated hard drives makes me wonder what files are that large, numerous or important to save in a domestic household. Gil - Scot Heron was wrong, everything gets bleedin televised

 

I'm a keen photographer, RAW files ar 27MB each.

I took 800 shots at a friends recent wedding, thats 2GB.... Then there's the edited versions to store too.

 

I can take between 5000 and 50000 shots a year....


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Posted 19 October 2016 - 07:07 pm

I have moved away from Raid to a 5 disk hot-swap Microsoft 2-way mirror storage space pool in my local server. Probably not the best technology but good enough and easy to expand when needed. I then use a Seagate 2.5" 2TB USB3 backup drive that I keep in my fire-resistant safe.

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#25 TKH

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Posted 20 October 2016 - 08:44 pm

All these home servers and dedicated hard drives makes me wonder what files are that large, numerous or important to save in a domestic household. Gil - Scot Heron was wrong, everything gets bleedin televised

 

A few hundred gb of music, movies, 20 years of digital photos, source copies of applications paid for and downloaded, shall I carry on?

 

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