> On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:28 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > > On 2015-06-11 9:53 , Eric Weir wrote: >> This suggests another question about Flickr as backup, though I’m leaning >> away from using it as such: Can you upload RAW/DNG files to Flickr? > > i didn't try it, but no, not according to a couple of recent references i > found; but any cloud service that handles RAW files is pretty much going to > guess at your rendering intent — in other words, you'll have RAW in the > cloud, but it may not look good > >> If not it would really be worthless as backup. > > it depends what you mean by backup; it sounds like you think of backup as > true copies of your work, in which case i think cloud backup solutions in > general aren't up to the job unless you create very few images (or perhaps > you are willing to spend for lots of cloud storage and you have something > like Google Fiber to speed your uploads) > > for the many terabytes that a lot of serious photographers create, using > physical storage media (hard drives) and rotating some to "off-site" > locations is faster and more cost effective; what can put you off this path > is that it takes thought, whereas a lot of cloud services seem to take care > of everything; but believe me, i have been called in to consult with people > who have dragged their hard drive icon into their Dropbox folder, thinking it > would "take care of it"; days later they are wondering why their computer is > slow, why only some of their files are on their other devices, and what the > funny messages are about
Many of the comments here, as well as some of the sources referenced, seem to be talking about “publishication” rather than “backup.” I use Flickr to share select images, usually edited, with others. To my tastes it works fine for this purpose. I don’t need anything else for it. What I’m looking for is a way to duplicate or possibly enhance my current back up system, which is two 1 TB firewire external drives managed with Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner. Regarding photography what I want basically is ability to create a copy of my photo directory as is and then make incremental backups to it as additions or changes are made to the original. I don’t want to show anyone my unedited DNG files. Earlier this year I had planned to create a new external drive-based system with much larger capacity drives accessible by wi-fi. I had identified the drives and a router and had talked with a tech-consultant friend about helping me set it up. Finances led me to hold up on proceeding with this idea. I may be ready to go ahead with it. Or, as a temporary backstop to my current system, I may give one of the cloud-based systems a try, likely Dropbox or CrashPlan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before." - Richard Feynman -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
