Ask HN: What is your photo backup strategy (on Mac)?

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Post by jozi9 » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

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Post by robinhoodexe » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:04 PM UTC

Time machine once every day to a 2 TB external harddrive (WD Elements). It just works.

Re: Ask HN: What is your photo backup strategy (on Mac)?

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Post by tobinharris » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:05 PM UTC

I upload my favourite shots to Flickr full res. This is about 1% of my photo collection.

I then pray my HDD doesn't fail!

One day I'll get organised and backup everything up to one of those 1TB NAS with auto-cloud sync :S

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Post by conchy » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:11 PM UTC

Use Aperture vault, and hope Apple doesn't decide to discontinue the product ..... Doh!

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Post by andybak » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:11 PM UTC

Same as the rest of my data backup strategy. Backblaze.

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Post by andybak » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:12 PM UTC

robinhoodexe wrote: post #2

Time machine once every day to a 2 TB external harddrive (WD Elements). It just works.

My big data-loss fear is a household robbery - so offsite is essential. Have you considered a scenario that involves losing your Mac and your backup drives?

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Post by derpadelt » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:17 PM UTC

Unison via SSH to a Raspberry-Pi-attached USB HDD. Upload to Flickr via cron-triggered python script from RasPi. Arq to S3. Hoping that "only to camlistore" will be the answer in 3-5 years.

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Post by 0bit » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:20 PM UTC

My photos are very important to me, so i do several backups: 1) The iPhoto Library is rsync'd to an external HDD 2) The iPhoto Library is rsync'd to a local FreeNAS box 3) Arq backup to S3 http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ 4) Crashplan backup to 3 locations: an external drive, a local server (not the FreeNAS box), as well as Crashplan central.

Terabytes are cheap, memories are not.

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Post by Haiperlink » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

+ rsync to External HDD at home + another at work + backblaze

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Post by mikehotel » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 7:41 PM UTC

I use duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org) to locally encrypt (GPG) and backup to a LAN machine running ZFS and to one or more cloud services (Google, AWS) depending on the data. This is automated using cron.

Whatever backup option you decide on, do not forget to test the recovery/restore process at least once a year. You can tweak your strategy anytime based on current cloud storage prices.