File storage

>>3095223

On a drive that automatically backed up to onedrive.

I make a copy to an external I store off site occasionally.

16TB direct attached storage via 10GbE
auto backups important stuff every two weeks to a 8TB drive in my server in the basement

>>3095223
I buy all my drives in pairs now and use software backups with custom rules, easier to transfer system to system than a raid.

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>>3095223
>How do you store your images?
file cabinet

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External and portable drive synced to Crashplan

Could someone recommend a software for windows , that will automatically sync my folder on a pc hdd with an external hdd everytime I connect it?

What speeds should you expect from a Seagate 5400 RPM drive with USB 3?
I don't want to wait 10 seconds each time I open up a folder for the thumbnails to load.

>>3095240
That's cool. I have my negatives in a pile of envelopes. I live in a 200 sqft apartment so I could never fit one of those.

>>3095223
Buy NAS and 2 hard disks, use them as RAID 1.

Buy 2-Disk-USB-Drive (for example from Western Digital). Configure RAID 1.

Buy cheap mainoard with onboard CPU, bit of RAM, cheap PC case, 2 Hard disks, build your mini server, add one of the NAS-Linux/BSD operating systems. Use the disks in Soft-RAID-1 mode.

What's the problem?

>>3097027
>I don't want to wait 10 seconds each time I open up a folder for the thumbnails to load.
Mac fag on radar, Sir!

>>3097040
I use Windows 10. But isn't it more of a read speed issue than an OS issue?

>>3097040

W10 does the same thing if you have 20+ multi-gb videos.

>>3097043
It's an OS issue. The problem of Macs is the ancient file system, which is not able to handle multiple files at once.

>>3095223
Use a NAS (up to 4 drives) or build a small Linux / BSD storage server (more economical after 4 drives).

If you don't feel competent even at basic computer administration, then maybe it's also not a terrible idea to buy storage as a service with like backblaze or such.

Even if it costs more, at least you do have someone competent managing the more risky part of it. And it's off-site, so anything from house fire / floods to theft also won't quite as easily get all your data.

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>>3095223
RAID 1

And I use an eSATA dock to make backups to various old drives which I store in various locations.

>>3095304
Never tried it myself.

But with a little trickery (Sygwin?) you should be able to use rsync on Windows too.

>>3097057
Probably because of telemetry since W7 doesn't have that problem.

I guess they can't just make thumbnails without telling Microsoft HQ exactly what porn you have stored.

Burn on bluray discs.

If by any chance the sun goes on a rampage and releases an EMP burst. All your harddrives will be wiped. But optical discs will remain.

>>3097108
>All your harddrives will be wiped.

No they won't.

Before you buy a NAS, aim for a single large drive where you do incremental backups on a regular basis and full backups if changes justify it. Windows comes with tools robocopy and wbadmin, Linux and MacOS comes with rsync.
Consider a second drive that you exchange with friends or relatives from time to time. Keep both drives offline while not in use, preferably in different rooms too for the case of house fire. Attach it to the computer only for backups.

Mirroring on a NAS will only protect you from the failure of a hard drive. The solution above does this too. The downside of a NAS is that often it is always powered on and attached to the network, thus malware or a lightning strike affect all hard drives of it.

If you want the convenience of directly storing on a NAS, mirror it from time to time to either an offline disk, a friends or relatives NAS or encrypted cloud storage.

Last but not least, print important photographs, also for your own enjoyment :)

>>3097108
>Solar EMP burst of catastrophal magnitude
In that case you'll have no elctricity for weeks, months, years, no more working computers. Your picture galleries will be the last thing you'll care about. Because you can't eat them.

>>3097115
>do incremental backups on a regular basis and full backups if changes justify it
I'd like to add, accidental deletion is the main reason for data loss. It is worth doing this effort.

>>3097106

W7 also does it.

Source - my massive pornography collection.

Plus all the telemetry got added to W7 through updates.

but i store my negatives and slides?

lmaoing @ digicucks.

>>3097131
You can remove/disable those updates on w7.

>>3097115
> The downside of a NAS is that often it is always powered on and attached to the network
The upside is that it'll actually have your recent photos backed up in every other situation whereas with a disconnected drive you'll haven't gotten around to doing the backup this month yet.

Having an offline backup is a secondary measure, the NAS is more important.

You can also instruct some NAS to not permit overwrites and keep deleted files in a folder that is only accessible for final deletion by a separate admin account or automatically after a month or so, to protect against the typical Windows malware threat. Still wise to do another offline backup, but it's the less necessary thing, automating your main backup to *actually happen* with a NAS is more important.

>>3095223
The way i did is 2 HDD For Videos and photos
Backup of videos on a private youtube channel video's set on private

1 free dropbox account for you MOST IMPORTANT PHOTOS
1 free google account for you MOST IMPORTANT PHOTOS
1 Paid Dropbox account For all your Photo's
1 SSD As backup For you MOST IMPORTANT PHOTOS

>>3095223
>two 4 TB external hard drives
>the bigger the drive, the more stuff you loose if you accidently

> Import onto my portable 500GB SSD live drive
> Copy over to 10TB main file drive + carbon clone to clone 10tb drive
> Work and edit from SSD
> The best of the final images will be exported as TIFFs and burned onto 100-year medical grade CD's X 2
> Delete project from live drive and repeat
> Take the main file drive and the extra CD to an off-site location and copy data to a 3rd archive drive and leave CD in "clone" CD case.

This is my workflow as someone doing paid work weekly.

As for my family workflow, Fuji jpegs, uploaded to Google photos and kept on an extra drive.

>>3097291
The idea is to copy every file to both drives. So both drives have to break at the same time in order to lose anything at all.

>>3097027
it eventually gets to a point where going with a cabinet like this saves space, I have to many negs to leave in a pile. the cabinet is almost full. The top drawer is 35mm and bottom is 120 + 4x5, soon I'll need to get a bigger cabinet.

>>3095227
You, I like you. Any photos?

>>3095223
In a negative archive, with scans and digital photos stored on two mirrored 3TB disks

I was actually wondering if anyone knows the best version/build of honeyview3 to use? I use my secondary drive (2TB) to store all my images btw,

>>3095227
I've got a similar setup.

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>>3097663
of the storages?
pretty unspectacular, it's a DS2015xs not even with any fancy GBICs, just a SFP+ cable going straight to the PC's NIC, performance is pretty stellar though with just 6 drives and a tad of SSD cache going on
server is just an old Xeon X5670 build doing random tasks around the house

Local stuff on laptop gets backed up to server, server backs that up again to cloud storage
Every now and then I get rid of the laptop copy so then it's only stored twice

I copy the pics from my laptop to the server manually, rest is automated with rsync and cronjobs

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I use my 35petabyte server-farm in outer-space to backup my shots directly after I pressed the trigger via satilit. I do 3Mio copies per picture on every physical storage drive existing, including diamond holograms and slab engraving.
Pic related is an example what I want to keep safe for future generations.

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>>3098140
I agree, data loss is a joke