Personal off-site photo backups
Jun 1, 2015, 12:40 pm
#16
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 3,376
I've seen stories about business that do regular backups but never test them.... when they really needed the backup, they couldn't retrieve it (tape was faulty, drive was fault and didn't actually write data, compression/settings were incorrect and they were backing up corrupt data etc, or worse: they weren't actually backing up data)
Jun 1, 2015, 2:23 pm
#17
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Denver, CO
Programs: UA Silver, Bonvoy Gold, Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 21,540
Google Photos now has unlimited photo/video backup for free. Photos up to 16MP and videos up to 1080P. It does a lot of extras too. I like the animations and trip collections. The auto face grouping is surprisingly accurate. The best part is it is now separate from Google+. I really hate Google+ so I never considered using its photo backup before.
I'm using two off-site backup sites now: Google Photos and Crashplan. I also use OneDrive for my phone photo backups, but that is just a temporary stop until it gets moved to my two local backups, then to the two cloud backups.
Last edited by pseudoswede; Jun 1, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Jun 1, 2015, 5:40 pm
#18
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,785
Well even if all your 49,000 are pictures at around 2MB in size, it would take about 45 hours to upload at full 5mbps speed. And if some of them are bigger in size or some are videos.. it will take longer!
Jun 1, 2015, 7:30 pm
#19
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2000
Posts: 37,486
https://www.mylyve.com/ is decent - it ingests all your photos to its storage unit, and as soon as you add additional units, no matter where they are, it'll start replicating.