I want to add one thing regarding glacier: 1. It is not "instant" retrieval when u need archive like s3. It will take a minimum of 4 hours (per archive) I suggest this approach : 1. Create an archive per photo shoot / day 2. Upload all the files related to that particular photo shoot / day into a single archive I will try to write a python script to automate things and also to make life easier store local info about the archives in sqlitedb and post here.
Nice as usual :) A quick tip to manage scanned negatives, it works well for me. I use a simple naming convention like "003_07_2011_120TMX400_008.tif". 003 is the number of the negative archival sleeve, 07_2011 the date of shooting, 120TMX400 means that is 120 film, tmax at 400 Iso. Sounds complex but it could be quite helpful and allows to get some basic info just form the filename without metadata. Hope it helps :) Bye
Exactly my thinking when I read the Glacier announcement but haven't tried it yet. I'm definitely interested in your experiences. Backblaze or something similar would also be another option to backup the external storage drives for example. I do a 311 rule or whatever you'd call it: 3 copies, 1 media type, 1 offsite. It's simple enough and works, and the data is always accessible.
I use CrashPlan for my off-site backup - a nice feature is that if you & a friend both have the free version, you can back up to each other's computers for free too... It'll also handle backups to an external drive, like Apple's Time Machine but for PC & Linux. Their online storage is as fast as your internet connection, unlimited & pretty reasonably priced. I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.
I was using DVDs in the past and although all of them are perfectly readable, I didn't feel safe with them. At the moment I use 3 hard drives (working space, backup, backup) and google drive and one copyright service for the final versions of most important images. Slowly making backups using memory sticks (easy to move off site) and preparing prints of "author's edition" (5 copies of each image 4 of them to be moved elsewhere). Still not perfect. Thanks for the video, good tips here.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I'm gonna have to watch this twice to take it all in, haha cuz I'm really not familiar with glacier. I've been using pixieset and an external hard drive as my backup but pixieset is quite expensive with that much data on it.
2020: still relevant. IMHO there are no clear DAM winners-unless you want to fatten up the wallets of big boys in Silicon Valley! Oh, & your little remark about Y!, Flickr & SmugMug - prescient! Though I’ve a feeling it was a very casual remark than anything else.
Thanks for the advice - although too late! My external hard drive just gave up last night, I've lost everything on it. Luckily enough, I have a second, but they're not exact copies. Ah well.
The video does not play in Firefox for some reason. I had this problem with a few other videos. But the video plays fine in Google Chrome. CZcams must be updating their systems again.
Hey Ted. Just watched this today because I am about to do a video on my backup strategies for my multimedia stuff. Photos and video. I was wondering if you updated this video and if you could provide a link. Love what you do by the way.
+The Art of Photography would be good. The cloud reality has come into play with services like Acronis and Crashplan. They sort of help in the easier implementation of the backup philosophy you talked about. I really think that backup should be mindless. Yup mindless. By this I mean automated. Take care of ingesting once and let automation do the 3-2-1in the background. The problem with us creatives is that we just will not stop our workflow to do something that is equally as boring as it is important. Thats my two cents. Cheers
For family and friends who thinks that paying 50 bucks for a 1tb hard disk is too expensive I teach them how to upload their photos on Flickr or Google Photos. After their iPads and iPhones eventually dies or breaks they thank me.
I want to add one thing regarding glacier:
1. It is not "instant" retrieval when u need archive like s3. It will take a minimum of 4 hours (per archive)
I suggest this approach :
1. Create an archive per photo shoot / day
2. Upload all the files related to that particular photo shoot / day into a single archive
I will try to write a python script to automate things and also to make life easier store local info about the archives in sqlitedb and post here.
Nice as usual :)
A quick tip to manage scanned negatives, it works well for me. I use a simple naming convention like "003_07_2011_120TMX400_008.tif". 003 is the number of the negative archival sleeve, 07_2011 the date of shooting, 120TMX400 means that is 120 film, tmax at 400 Iso. Sounds complex but it could be quite helpful and allows to get some basic info just form the filename without metadata.
Hope it helps :)
Bye
Exactly my thinking when I read the Glacier announcement but haven't tried it yet. I'm definitely interested in your experiences.
Backblaze or something similar would also be another option to backup the external storage drives for example.
I do a 311 rule or whatever you'd call it: 3 copies, 1 media type, 1 offsite. It's simple enough and works, and the data is always accessible.
I use CrashPlan for my off-site backup - a nice feature is that if you & a friend both have the free version, you can back up to each other's computers for free too... It'll also handle backups to an external drive, like Apple's Time Machine but for PC & Linux. Their online storage is as fast as your internet connection, unlimited & pretty reasonably priced.
I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.
12:45 cat finally got cozy thank god
Hi Ted, what is your opinion now on Amazon Glacier?
Wow, thank for the info. I didn't catch that. I just wanted a service that would back up my external drive which carbonite doesn't do.
I wonder how AWS S3 and Glacier fare in 2023 as photo storage/backup options
I was using DVDs in the past and although all of them are perfectly readable, I didn't feel safe with them. At the moment I use 3 hard drives (working space, backup, backup) and google drive and one copyright service for the final versions of most important images. Slowly making backups using memory sticks (easy to move off site) and preparing prints of "author's edition" (5 copies of each image 4 of them to be moved elsewhere). Still not perfect. Thanks for the video, good tips here.
checking out glacier now... thanks.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I'm gonna have to watch this twice to take it all in, haha cuz I'm really not familiar with glacier. I've been using pixieset and an external hard drive as my backup but pixieset is quite expensive with that much data on it.
2020: still relevant. IMHO there are no clear DAM winners-unless you want to fatten up the wallets of big boys in Silicon Valley!
Oh, & your little remark about Y!, Flickr & SmugMug - prescient! Though I’ve a feeling it was a very casual remark than anything else.
Back up on three hard drives and DVD-R or Blu-Ray and offline back up.
I love that cat on the Top Left!!!!
Thanks for the advice - although too late! My external hard drive just gave up last night, I've lost everything on it. Luckily enough, I have a second, but they're not exact copies. Ah well.
The video does not play in Firefox for some reason. I had this problem with a few other videos. But the video plays fine in Google Chrome. CZcams must be updating their systems again.
Okay so I'm ultra protective of my files. I have carbonite, just cloud and an independent drive my work lives on. Maybe I'll get Glacier as well.
You also could check on Symform.
Thanks for a great video
What about the Plex server?
Hey Ted. Just watched this today because I am about to do a video on my backup strategies for my multimedia stuff. Photos and video. I was wondering if you updated this video and if you could provide a link. Love what you do by the way.
+The Movingicon I have not yet… probably should do an update though - this video is kind of old ;-)
+The Art of Photography
would be good. The cloud reality has come into play with services like Acronis and Crashplan. They sort of help in the easier implementation of the backup philosophy you talked about. I really think that backup should be mindless. Yup mindless. By this I mean automated. Take care of ingesting once and let automation do the 3-2-1in the background. The problem with us creatives is that we just will not stop our workflow to do something that is equally as boring as it is important. Thats my two cents. Cheers
What kind of software do you use for Glacier? Any suggestions for OS X?
thank you
I use Arq and it's all automatic. I'm on a mac.
Does anyone use pCloud for photos and videos?
just use DVD's for data storage (RAW) pictures and a cloud with a 1To ssd portable to take with you, well this work for me ....
you should buy 2 new ones and make them both raid 1 then they are exact copies of eachother
For family and friends who thinks that paying 50 bucks for a 1tb hard disk is too expensive I teach them how to upload their photos on Flickr or Google Photos. After their iPads and iPhones eventually dies or breaks they thank me.
Smug Mug dose not store RAW files
There were 666 views when this popped up in my feed.
It was like God was telling me to learn about safe archival practices :)
wow this is a really old video XD