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It is important to be careful with how you try to use Glacier. I have been looking its pricing; It costs $0.01 per GB per month only if you want to upload your data. Downloads add significant cost if you want to retrieve more than 0.17% of your data in a day. Downloading 5% of your data increases your monthly rate to $0.097 per GB. 10% increases to $0.187 per GB 50% increases to $0.907 per GB 100% increases to $1.807…
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> Occurs to me you might wonder what this looks like today I finally hit a sweet spot of performance, archive accessibility, and offsite safety, by using internal SSD for latest import workspace, direct attached WD Velociraptor (Thunderbolt) for current projects (can reconnect between Mac Mini server and laptops as needed), and 2 direct attached LaCie 4big Quadras (daisy chained via FW800) for archived projects (up t…
I think your strategy has a huge flaw - The Joplin, Missouri tornado, Moore, Oklahoma tornado, Hurricane Sandy and Katrina. I don't think you should rely on someone who MERELY uses the same ISP. I think you need to be a thousand miles away from each other.
I also store full "originals" (JPEG only, not RAW, but at least its something) on an unlimited Pro Flickr account, again, until their policy changes.
- Local daemon running that manages this process, on PC or Mac. It can't be done solely from the browser.
- The software manages the import from the SD/CF cards, you put them all in, it sorts everything out and wipes the SD cards on the way out.
- You then use Lightroom to do whatever you're going to do. The software would do well to have a Lightroom plugin that lets you select particular images to mark as "high priority" and "low priority."
- Now the daemon uploads all of your RAWs, Lightroom metadata, and corrected JPGs to cloud storage.
- Based on your settings, these RAWs get discarded after some set amount of time (maybe immediately, maybe never), and the highest-quality JPGs are also discarded after a longer amount of time for lower-quality JPGs just in case you need a emergency backup. After 6 months you lose the raws, 1 year the highest quality JPG, 2 years the medium quality JPG, etc. You are charged per gigabyte per month so you can decide how much you care about backup. Basically offload the cognitive effort of discarding old data that isn't worth its upkeep costs anymore.
- The files are available via an API that you can use to build your own gallery/shopping cart site, with the ability to call a certain quality, PROOF watermarking, etc. on-the-fly. But the service offers a default site right there for you to do the same, that's stylable and can be implemented on your own domain.
- You can get your entire catalog shipped to you on a hard drive at any time for a few hundred dollars.
I wish I could trust the cloud because it would be a lot more convenient to not have to worry about storing photos, which involves a lot of effort once you advance beyond a casual hobby and you get into storing Terrabytes of large RAW files and maintaining adequate backups. But the idea of storing any files in the cloud is very distasteful to me ever since the NSA Snowden story broke. Even something as innocent as a…