Backup solutions and storage

gethane

gethane

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I have to get a backup solution. I've lost pictures in the past and a concerned it could happen again. My dad has Carbonite and it took over a month to get his backup downloaded so I'm not that interested in that. My husband did some research and came up with Crashplan as a good cloud backup. Like other backup solutions, it's just that, a backup, not a cloud file access solution. I did find that I could get 1TB of space from Windows OneDrive if I purchased Office 365 for 6.99/month. But I don't really need office 365 :).

Anyone have any experience with Crashplan?

Second. Storage. I'm a digital pack rat. I keep terrible photos (maybe I'm just lazy about deleting them) and every digital scrap product I've ever downloaded, free or purchased. This is stupid, I realize, but I can't seem to give it up. As a result of this my data hard drive is getting pretty full. Because a laptop is my computer, I can't get a bigger than 750GB for anything close to a reasonable price. Hubby says it will be 400ish dollars.

On top of that, I don't have a place to put an EHD near my laptop for routine scrapping work and delays in access annoy me, like when I have to wifi access our server to check out my husband's photos for scrapping duty.

What do other packrats do for storage?
 
Do you honestly use those really old scrap kits? I ask because I have 2 crashed hard drives that have kits on them, and while I wish I had access to them, in all honesty, I would not be using them. They're too dated. I burned them off to DVD's and labeled them really well and I've maybe gone looking 2-3 times in a few years!

We use carbonite and have an extra hard drive that we back up onto, but we have to figure out something else as well, so I'm watching with interest.
 
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I use Backblaze for backup of my Windows laptop system, and have 2 Seagate EHD 1.5 TB each that I backup design files, photos, documents, emails, etc., just as a second backup, and then have cloud storage through Apple for my iPhone and iPad.

I go through my EHDs every year (when I purge my paper files), and delete stuff that I haven't touched in years (scrapping kits I designed in 2009 for instance.) :)

There must be a more simple way, after I read what I've just written...LOL!
 
Carbonite- totally screwed me for back up.... [that is my nice statement]
I am happy with Smug Mug. AND their support personnel is the best ever.
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I actually just wrote a blog post about my struggle with this! After losing a lot last summer when my brand new laptop went through 4 hard drives in 3 months, I had to come up with a plan! I got a tiny little 1 TB external hard drive that the computer guy said I could run over with the car and I have backed up everything on it. I also use dvds/cds in case I really can't run over the external drive with a car, and a cloud back-up for my photos just in case the external drive and the cds get run over.:) I'm still trying to figure out what we should do about backing up the entire computer. I don't trust technology anymore. We all know printing photos is the safest way to save them, but we have an investment in all of our digital products too. I can't wait to hear the answers to this!
 
Thanks for all the ideas. I've never heard of Smug Mug.

Do I use the stuff? Rarely. Every once in a while I'll find an alpha or a mask that I downloaded years ago that I use. Rarely. I have to purge, I know I do.
 
I use backblaze but all my files are not downloaded yet as I have a couple 2 tb drives and my computer only lets me run so much a day. I also have everything backed up on two or more EHD and have a portable with all software kits. I also backed up all my photos by year on USB drives.
 
I use crash plan. I think whatever you use is going to take awhile to back up. Mine took a few weeks. I currently have three terabyte backed up. I have never had to go in and use it per say. Knock on wood. If you are going to get crash plan, they usually have a Black Friday sale. I initially signed up two years ago and paid $9 for the YEAR! They had some progressive thing and the sooner you got it, the less it was. I didn't get it right away, so it would have been less. I backup full size JPEG of my layouts to FLICKR. It is 1 TB free storage and you can download original size.
 
I decided I couldn't wait any longer. My fan in my laptop is acting up and it has been slow going getting the Taiwanese company that made my laptop to tell my what fan I need to replace it. I'm worried heat could take out my data drive. So we bought a year of Crashplan. Since you can now backup network drives as well, my husband will back up what he wants to our server, then I'll map that drive and use Crashplan to back that up as well. Thanks for all the input!
 
Right now I use an EHD. I have one for daily use and another for backup. I also backup pictures on the computer.

I think going forward I will probably only back up pictures!, layouts, and a few kits. Too many I never look at. LOL...
 
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