If you need a local (wifi) based incremental backup solution on osx, rsync (comes with osx) to another mac (mini) or any cheap nas is the fastest, and easiest route. Don't try OneDrive on OSX you will hate it.
On 12 June 2015 at 20:06, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> 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. -- 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.
