Manual backup to external HDD + automatic backup to google drive with this app https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/4392268
I also like the opportunity to view these photos through Google+ Photos interface.
Ask HN: What is your photo backup strategy (on Mac)?
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#123 levels. 1) time machine. 2) BitTorrent sync to share photo folders. 3) Mozy
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#13Google Drive - syncs automatically full res photo's from my phone which shortly end up sync'd to my macbook.
Drive is the authoritive store for my photo's - any thing on my PC can be lost with no problems
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#14I have all photos in dropbox with packrat feature. Furthermore I backup to my local Synology NAS via their software and to AWS S3 via arq.
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#15AWS Bucket w/revisions enabled connected to PictureLife.com. Amazon raises invoices directly to me for storage usage and if PictureLife shuts down (hopefully not) then there's no need to export data because I own/control the data. ie. AWS provides the hosting and PictureLife provides the product on-top of my hosting.
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#16BitTorrent Sync from Android to an Ubuntu server in LAN.
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#17Same as the rest of my data backup strategy. Backblaze.
How have you found it? I tried it out and found it was something like 45 days to run a full backup on my 1TB machine, and discontinued it fairly immediately.
Let's just say that was more than 45 days ago....
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#18Time Machine to a Linux file server (large RAIDZ2 ZFS array) for both my MBP and the GF's iMac.
CrashPlan family edition (unlimited backups for up to ten computers) for both of us, the Linux file server and my parents laptops as well.
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#19Onsite backup via time machine to a NAS
Offsite backup to Backblaze
Re: Ask HN: What is your photo backup strategy (on Mac)?
#20Same as the rest of my data backup strategy. Backblaze.
How have you found it? I tried it out and found it was something like 45 days to run a full backup on my 1TB machine, and discontinued it fairly immediately. Let's just say that was more than 45 days ago....
Can't remember how long it took but it finished uploading before I needed an emergency restore ;-)