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What's your archive strategy for old files?


3 years 7 months ago #695947 by Scuba Mike
I'd like to hear what others are doing with your older photo and video files.  My new computer has a 1TB hard drive and already after about 5 months of owning this, my hard drive is nearly full  and only has 26GB of space left.  I need to figure out something here.   

So far my research as found these options:

1. Get external hard drives that I plug into USB-C when I want to back things up  $$
2. Larger RAID setup $$$$
3. Dropbox $
4. Google $

Am I missing anything?  Seems like option #1 could turn into $$$ after awhile of having to buy more drives as you keep filing things up. 

What are you doing?
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3 years 7 months ago #695974 by Nikon Shooter
Hey Mike. this is my set up:

1 TB SSD on board with only system and working files.

One 4 TB where only shoots resides, a 2 TB for all other docs
a 4 TB for music and other media… all Thunderbolt 3.

All backed up to a 12TB NAS / Raid 5 modular unit (QNAP).
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3 years 7 months ago #695975 by Scuba Mike
Just to confirm, your 4TB and 2TB, these are small credit card size drives?
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3 years 7 months ago #695977 by Nikon Shooter
They are of the size that fit in a MacBook pro
laptop but each in a casing of its own.
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3 years 7 months ago #695980 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Mike

My approach is "similar but different" from NS's approach

As I shoot in JPG mode, my storage requirements are not as huge as those shooting in RAW then saving to JPG

My laptop has a 1TB drive partitioned 50/50% for images vs documents
I have 2x 500Gb drives (1x from the laptop before the HDD upsize) which receive mirrored-copies from each of the 2x above partitions
I also have a 3rd 500Gb drive holding the 'most important stuff' that is stored off-site

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3 years 7 months ago #695987 by Nikon Shooter

Ozzie_Traveller wrote: my storage requirements are not as huge as those shooting in RAW then saving to JPG


I only save full res jpgs when they were work through
a pixel editor. RAWs that were developed and didn't
need to will be published as low res jpegs and these
are never kept… just saying.
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3 years 7 months ago #696584 by marmathsen

Nikon Shooter wrote: Hey Mike. this is my set up:

1 TB SSD on board with only system and working files.

One 4 TB where only shoots resides, a 2 TB for all other docs
a 4 TB for music and other media… all Thunderbolt 3.

All backed up to a 12TB NAS / Raid 5 modular unit (QNAP).


Great Info!

Do you find it problematic to deal with the 3 external hard drives? Is your primary machine a laptop?

So the NAS is strictly for backup? Is the backup automatic? How do you backup the externals?

Do you have an off site backup? Using what method?
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3 years 7 months ago - 3 years 7 months ago #696585 by Nikon Shooter

marmathsen wrote: Do you find it problematic to deal with the 3 external hard drives?

That's pretty much plug and play.

marmathsen wrote: Is your primary machine a laptop?

All my machines are primaries — they must allow me to do the
same thing work but at their different levels of performance.

marmathsen wrote: So the NAS is strictly for backup?

Yep.

marmathsen wrote: Is the backup automatic? 

Yep… through TimeMachine

marmathsen wrote: How do you backup the externals?

Simply, through TimeMachine

marmathsen wrote: Do you have an off site backup?

Nope, I couldn't care less.
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3 years 7 months ago #696644 by fmw
My files are backed up to a NAS (network attached storage) which is in turn backed up by another NAS.
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3 years 7 months ago #696685 by saponcpa
I understand what are you talking about. You can use Google Drive because it's free another setup 12TB because 12TB is a huge capacity. 
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3 years 7 months ago #696687 by Nikon Shooter

saponcpa wrote: You can use Google Drive…


The longer the chain, the weaker it is.
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3 years 7 months ago #696715 by saponcpa
We use Dropbox's premium service along with google drive and wetransfer's premium integration to our website clippingpatharts. Dropbox gives us 3 TB space. In fact we need to deal with hundreds of images everyday regardless of any file format, TIFF/PSD/JPG/PNG, even raw file format. We are quite satisfied with all these Dropbox+Wetransfer's premium service. Google Drive adds extra facility for us.
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3 years 7 months ago #696716 by saponcpa
We use Dropbox's premium service along with google drive and wetransfer's premium integration to our website clippingpatharts. Dropbox gives us 3 TB space. In fact we need to deal with hundreds of images everyday regardless of any file format, TIFF/PSD/JPG/PNG, even raw file format. We are quite satisfied with all these Dropbox+Wetransfer's premium service. Google Drive adds extra facilities for us.
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3 years 7 months ago #696860 by EOS Man
+1 Dropbox and Google Drive and a number of USB hard drives
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3 years 7 months ago #696873 by Prago
G-Technology 4TB drives
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