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| Thread ID: 83005 | 2007-09-15 21:00:00 | On line storage | jcr1 (893) | Press F1 |
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| 591472 | 2007-09-15 21:00:00 | Over the last 5 years, since I've owned digital cameras I've built up a huge collection of photos, quite a few of which I consider valuable, to me anyway. I back up to a server on the same premises and occasionally burn to DVD. But I feel it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a backup away from home somewhere. What do people think of on line storage? I have a feeling there might be a few fish hooks; i.e. cost, hackers etc |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 591473 | 2007-09-15 21:06:00 | I would rather keep them on DVD than put them on some site somewhere. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 591474 | 2007-09-15 21:32:00 | You could get a external hard drive and regularly back up to that. Keep the hard drive at work or a nearby relatives place. The cost of the online storage will be ongoing fees. Use a decent commercial company so that your files are also backed up off their servers with a 100% guarantee against lost of data. The cost/time of uploading all those files will need to be considered as well. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 591475 | 2007-09-16 01:21:00 | That was about my feeling too. I felt a bit uneasy about saving 'em on-line. Probably continue with DVD's and keep a beady eye out for an excellent deal on back up removable hard drives. Jen, if I kept the back up at my place of work (not so much anymore) it would be in a cowshed or haybarn or somewhere else not so salubrious. But thanks anyway:D My daughter and her family are only a few minutes away... |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 591476 | 2007-09-16 02:23:00 | DVDs for backup : / | sal (67) | ||
| 591477 | 2007-09-16 02:34:00 | Have a look at My Post (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) Similar sort of thing. If you are allowed to store your data/photos at work or a friends place/PC. then Foldershare (https://www.foldershare.com/) works OK as I have found out. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 591478 | 2007-09-16 02:42:00 | With almost 3 Gig for each address, I just have a series of Gmail boxes that store things for me. It's not my only storage area, but it is ONE MORE to help keep them around. I just e-mail them from Picasa to any of my names and there they are. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 591479 | 2007-09-16 03:37:00 | I use smugmug.com to store my photos. Yes there is a cost. From their website Living a dream We dream of an independent company devoted to nothing but your priceless photos. A company that backs up your photos to three data centers across the U.S. A profitable, debt-free company. That earns your fanatical loyalty. We're living that dream. Details, details. 23 employees. 315,000 paying customers. 175,000,000 photos. We'll always be smaller than the photo-sharing divisions of giant companies. Which is a very good thing. |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 591480 | 2007-09-16 04:05:00 | I use smugmug.com to store my photos. Yes there is a cost. From their website We'll always be smaller than the photo-sharing divisions of giant companies. Which is a very good thing. They are more likely to go under as compared to the photo division of Google or Yahoo. Basic economics. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 591481 | 2007-09-16 04:24:00 | why store what you consider 'valuable' data on some server far away somewhere thousands of k'ms away ?......soun'ds pretty dumb to me you totally lose control of it and anything could happen........I wont do that......hell storage is cheap........get a spare hdd or a stack of dvds or whatver but dont rely on some one elses computer system in some other country | drcspy (146) | ||
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