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Re: Everpix

#71

Post by crazygringo »

podperson wrote: post #66
timmins wrote: post #64

I explored Everpix. It started importing all of my photos from my account. It was seamless, I loved it, and wanted to explore more. So I was about to upload from my NAS. I realized they don't support RAW. I guess having JPGs, etc are better than nothing but I don't shoot in JPG. I shoot in RAW and maybe convert to DNG. I looked over the size of my library. I was shocked to learn the size. This made me realize I need…

I'm using Crashplan because it offered a good deal. It took me two months to complete my initial backup (i didn't back up everything but I did backup my main Aperture library) and incremental backups (for two laptops and a Mac Pro) have been quick and painless. Everpix is useless. Not only does it not handle RAW, it can't find pictures in libraries not in default locations.

+1 for CrashPlan. Have been using it for a couple years now, and have only had good experiences with it. (OSX)

Plus, you can configure it not just to back up to CrashPlan's servers, but to also back up to a NAS or similar -- so you've got your local backup in case of HD failure (obviously much quicker to restore from), but also got CrashPlan's backup in case of fire, etc.

Re: Everpix

#72

Post by swisspol »

EwanG wrote: post #70
swisspol wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Everpix founder here) Everpix will simply sync the JPEGs and ignore the RAWs in your folders, it's all perfectly supported. If you think some of your photos are not synced, the first thing to keep in mind is that our Free plan shows your last 12 months of photos. So older photos won't appear in Everpix. If you still think some photos are missing, please check this KB article: https://support.everpix.com/entries/2220…

A few hours later and it appears it has found my photos, although it seems to keep starting and stopping as if it gets confused. Suppose I am the long pole in the tent for that... On RAW, given that there are now open source libraries out there, I would like to see them pulled up so that I have the option to keep "everything" in sync. A future direction you might want to consider. In fact, I presume that at some poin…

(Everpix founder here) Not sure why you mean by "it seems to keep starting and stopping as if it gets confused". Please use "Contact Support" from the Uploader menu so we can get to the bottom of this.

Re: Everpix

#73

Post by timmins »

podperson wrote: post #66
timmins wrote: post #64

I explored Everpix. It started importing all of my photos from my account. It was seamless, I loved it, and wanted to explore more. So I was about to upload from my NAS. I realized they don't support RAW. I guess having JPGs, etc are better than nothing but I don't shoot in JPG. I shoot in RAW and maybe convert to DNG. I looked over the size of my library. I was shocked to learn the size. This made me realize I need…

I'm using Crashplan because it offered a good deal. It took me two months to complete my initial backup (i didn't back up everything but I did backup my main Aperture library) and incremental backups (for two laptops and a Mac Pro) have been quick and painless. Everpix is useless. Not only does it not handle RAW, it can't find pictures in libraries not in default locations.

Unreal. I never thought about that (since photos are on a NAS) even though I use and swear by Crashplan. Such a simple practice. Thank you.

Re: Everpix

#74

Post by Osmium »

podperson wrote: post #66
timmins wrote: post #64

I explored Everpix. It started importing all of my photos from my account. It was seamless, I loved it, and wanted to explore more. So I was about to upload from my NAS. I realized they don't support RAW. I guess having JPGs, etc are better than nothing but I don't shoot in JPG. I shoot in RAW and maybe convert to DNG. I looked over the size of my library. I was shocked to learn the size. This made me realize I need…

I'm using Crashplan because it offered a good deal. It took me two months to complete my initial backup (i didn't back up everything but I did backup my main Aperture library) and incremental backups (for two laptops and a Mac Pro) have been quick and painless. Everpix is useless. Not only does it not handle RAW, it can't find pictures in libraries not in default locations.

As both a happy Crashplan user and a happy Everpix user, I don't think it's fair to compare the two directly. For me, Everpix is not primarily a backup service -- I shoot in RAW too, I also shoot movies, and for now Everpix doesn't help me with that. I use Everpix because I want to take my photo library on the go, so I can share photos with people or look at them myself, but my library is far too big (100 GB) to keep on my phone or my laptop, so Everpix allows me to take that library with me, and also allows me to easily process my photos too. The fact that it gives me a secondary backup (albeit only of my processed jpgs) is just a bonus.

Since I've been using Everpix, I've looked at, re-discovered and shared more photos in the last two months than I have in the last year or more before that. It's really been a joy to use. It's been like rediscovering my photo library all over again.

As for finding pictures in non-default locations, all I can say is that I've never had an issue with that and Everpix has worked seamlessly for me. I'm a very happy customer.

Sadly, I can't say the same for Crashplan. I like their service and their price point and am more than happy to keep using them, but their software hasn't been updated in a year (non-Retina, and not very mac-like) but far more importantly their de-duplication doesn't seem to work for me. When I wanted to move my photos folder to an external drive, it re-uploaded the whole 100 GB. I don't know if that's because of the security options I use or not, but I definitely have dedup enabled. If there was a solution, I couldn't find it. Clunky to say the least.

Re: Everpix

#75

Post by swisspol »

swiil wrote: post #58
hospadam wrote: post #13

So this looks amazing... and I want to buy into it... but I was just burned by Snapjoy several months ago. I feel like I'll pay the money... spend my time syncing my library and getting everything organized... and then someone else is going to snatch you guys up and shut it down. Clearly you guys have a business model and a product you're selling. If I can't even rely on you guys being in business long-term, what can…

Why not offer an export to S3 or Drop Box or Etc... feature so to avoid this fear? I agree - not going to pay unless some back up (locally or otherwise) option is offered to mitigate this risk.

(Everpix founder here) Just to be clear, we certainly allow users to re-download photos in full-resolution and with all their metadata, but in batches from various places in www.everpix.com, not as a single gigantic multi-gigabytes ZIP archive (for technical reasons you can imagine but we are working on it).

Re: Everpix

#76

Post by fakeer »

hospadam wrote: post #13

So this looks amazing... and I want to buy into it... but I was just burned by Snapjoy several months ago. I feel like I'll pay the money... spend my time syncing my library and getting everything organized... and then someone else is going to snatch you guys up and shut it down. Clearly you guys have a business model and a product you're selling. If I can't even rely on you guys being in business long-term, what can…

>>what can I do?

Hosting your own gallery and deciding public-private-public-semi-lockdown must have occurred to you I reckon. And you can sure do that. Keep a back up all the time.

AAMOF if you've enough enough at your shared server or VPS then it will become another backup, in addition to local and remote( sth like backblaze, crashplan).

PS. I didn't use Snapjoy much but had few photos there. Just casually put over there after creating my a/c. It was some referral. I can't login now(it's alright) and the good old blog post link, is still there, in which they they promised our photos were safe they will get back to us. Did they?

Re: Everpix

#77

Post by fakeer »

timmins wrote: post #64

I explored Everpix. It started importing all of my photos from my account. It was seamless, I loved it, and wanted to explore more. So I was about to upload from my NAS. I realized they don't support RAW. I guess having JPGs, etc are better than nothing but I don't shoot in JPG. I shoot in RAW and maybe convert to DNG. I looked over the size of my library. I was shocked to learn the size. This made me realize I need…

I think Glacier shall be better as you wanted sth for backup. Some data that is just going to sit there needn't be costing those many dollars as it would cost you with S3. Reliability is all the same for all practical purposes. I am waiting for a Glacier client that saves my data in some format that I can read with any other client with the same key. Arq is Arq-to-Arq only.

Another option is CrashPlan. Been using it. You can have Glacier with CrashPlan too. It's that cheap.

How many GBs/TBs?

Re: Everpix

#78

Post by fakeer »

crazygringo wrote: post #71
podperson wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using Crashplan because it offered a good deal. It took me two months to complete my initial backup (i didn't back up everything but I did backup my main Aperture library) and incremental backups (for two laptops and a Mac Pro) have been quick and painless. Everpix is useless. Not only does it not handle RAW, it can't find pictures in libraries not in default locations.

+1 for CrashPlan. Have been using it for a couple years now, and have only had good experiences with it. (OSX) Plus, you can configure it not just to back up to CrashPlan's servers, but to also back up to a NAS or similar -- so you've got your local backup in case of HD failure (obviously much quicker to restore from), but also got CrashPlan's backup in case of fire, etc.

These extra features make CrashPlan such a killer app otherwise I would have ditched them long ago for BackBlaze which has a native Mac app and their (BackBlaze's) interface is like at least 13X* times better than CrashPlan.

*note: a random number out of frustration. They have one(native app) in works since 2-3 years it seems.

Re: Everpix

#79

Post by marcamillion »

So....I am a bit skeptical and would love for some clarity. I have been looking for something like this for my wife, for a while. She takes pictures like they are going out of style.

But...can you explain your economics to me.

How do you make money on users with huge libraries (300GB+)? The reason I want to know, is because I would feel more comfortable knowing that this is sustainable and properly thought out, than just some marketing ploy.

I have seen a few services launch with ridiculously low prices that ultimately prove not to be sustainable. This seems like it could potentially be one of those.

Thoughts?

Re: Everpix

#80

Post by wavesounds »

swisspol wrote: post #52
wavesounds wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what exactly happens to your pictures if the company is bought? Looks like a good service, wish they had a clearer privacy policy and some guarantees.

(Everpix founder here) We tried to make our privacy policy pretty clear and relatively easy to read at https://www.everpix.com/legal/privacy.html . What parts did you think were not detailed enough?

Do I still own my pictures once they are uploaded to your server? Does keeping my pictures stored on your server after the privacy policy changes count as 'continued use of the service'?

What Im getting at is if you get bought by Microsoft, where does it say that Microsoft cant take my pictures and use them in their next ad or sell them to someone else?

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