Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: Chipper on January 05, 2009, 10:08:56 pm
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OK.
I know google, Picasa, and smugsmug all offer this service.
Can anyone offer me advice on these (or any other) that would help me decide?
Thanks!
Chipper
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What are you looking for exactly?
I use Mozy Home. $5 a month for all you can drink. But it is a pure backup thing. It isn't a gallery thing.
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I had a look at Mozy, but it's a bit more pricy if you are a business. So how do they prevent businesses signing up as an individual?
Also a keen amateur photographer/filmmaker/musician, may well generate far more data than many offices.
Mind you for me it's the slow upload speed of my 'superfast' broadband that is a serious bottle neck for online solutions.
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I had a look at Mozy, but it's a bit more pricy if you are a business. So how do they prevent businesses signing up as an individual?
Also a keen amateur photographer/filmmaker/musician, may well generate far more data than many offices.
Mind you for me it's the slow upload speed of my 'superfast' broadband that is a serious bottle neck for online solutions.
I should have mentioned that. The initial upload is brutal. And if I generated more images I would have to get a higher speed connection to keep up with that.
My understanding is that the bidnez version is faster. I'm not sure I have more upload speed available to me on my line, however.
I've been asking for a way to generate file lists for upload. I like to keep more than I really need to backup but unless I have something physically copy select files to a new location and have Mozy backup that location I can't achieve my ends. I'd like to have something wiffle through the data and look for anything over xx and generate a list that I could feed to Mozy. I'm having a hard time translating that request into hindi.
Edit: I also worry about having so many files in DNG. I'm a little tempted to change my settings so that changes are not automatically written to files so that the DNG files are not changing. The upshot of the CR2/XMP file pair is that the XMP files are much smaller and are easier to backup.
The nice thing about mozy is that at about $60 a year it is cheaper than a USB drive and is already at a remote location. I could keep the USB drive at work but then I'd be constantly moving it from my warm and (relatively) humid house to my car which might be as cold as -10F (or so) and back. I can't see that being good for longevity.
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I should have mentioned that. The initial upload is brutal. And if I generated more images I would have to get a higher speed connection to keep up with that.
My understanding is that the bidnez version is faster. I'm not sure I have more upload speed available to me on my line, however.
I've been asking for a way to generate file lists for upload. I like to keep more than I really need to backup but unless I have something physically copy select files to a new location and have Mozy backup that location I can't achieve my ends. I'd like to have something wiffle through the data and look for anything over xx and generate a list that I could feed to Mozy. I'm having a hard time translating that request into hindi.
Edit: I also worry about having so many files in DNG. I'm a little tempted to change my settings so that changes are not automatically written to files so that the DNG files are not changing. The upshot of the CR2/XMP file pair is that the XMP files are much smaller and are easier to backup.
The nice thing about mozy is that at about $60 a year it is cheaper than a USB drive and is already at a remote location. I could keep the USB drive at work but then I'd be constantly moving it from my warm and (relatively) humid house to my car which might be as cold as -10F (or so) and back. I can't see that being good for longevity.
I'm considering smugmug, carbonite, and this is the first I've heard of mozy home. Are you familiar with smugmug or carbonite?
Thanks.
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I'm considering smugmug, carbonite, and this is the first I've heard of mozy home. Are you familiar with smugmug or carbonite?
Thanks.
I've been using Carbonite for a few months now. The initial upload is pretty brutal - I think I'm at about 50gb out of 300gb I've set to backup. However, this is my third form of backup (external hard-drive on-site, DVD copies off-site). However, right now I'm on DirectTV satellite Internet, and our line speed is not exactly amazing, to say the least.
Hard to beat the price if you've got a lot of data.
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I'm considering smugmug, carbonite, and this is the first I've heard of mozy home. Are you familiar with smugmug or carbonite?
Thanks.
Not really.