Spent the last few days backing up hundreds of gigabytes of photos off this computer and into DVDs. Whew!

By
Spent the last few days backing up hundreds of gigabytes of photos off this computer and into DVDs. Whew!

I have external drives ... somewhere, but even they can fail. I keep thinking about online, or "cloud", solutions, but unfortunately, money is an issue.

I still have hundreds of gigabytes of photos on here, but they need to be edited. 

I am so far behind the curve.

Comments

Jason ON said…
Yeah, I have that too, but to be honest, as much as the cloud is useful, I really prefer working locally when organizing, tagging, etc.

Especially since my CenturyLink DSL is coming in typically at 5mb/s instead of the 20 we're paying for.
July 23, 2014 at 12:17 PM
Dmitriy Briskin said…
I have a RAID6 NAS for my backups. Using Google plus photos (formerly Picasa Web Albums) as a secondary cloud based backup.
July 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM
Jason ON said…
I have autobackup for Google+ as well, but again, you're forced to work in the cloud and Google+ Photos doesn't have nearly the free storage Flickr does.
July 23, 2014 at 12:51 PM
Steve Johnson said…
Flickr and Google+ are great for cloud storage, but they can delete your entire account and content without notice if their robots decide you violated a term of service.
July 23, 2014 at 2:11 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to...

By
So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to remove me from whatever Circle he has me in where he posts the animated gifs and cat pictures. It was either that or unfollow him and I didn't see any reason to unfollow him. Me asking https://plus.google.com/112885755521259735422/posts/78dwnvvgh4p <==edited to add the correct link Then he plusses me onto Public posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/EuuR1tnU3vJ https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/8r6Grcm2Jpj https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/74PgSu6iL2s Then one of his friends (or Circlers) starts plussing me into posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107120198886093172821/posts/gRW9JhWLs5T Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sarcasm and messing with people, but this seems sort of childish to me. Am I the only one who thinks so? So far I have only blocked
Read more

I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend.

By
I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
Read more