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Hi, question of where to keep images and backing up ?
For a long time I've been keeping things as follows:-
Current year images on my iMac
Previous years images on my NAS (not enough room on mac to keep them there)
Import backup images on external drive connected to iMac
iMac is manually backed up onto NAS and the NAS is backed up onto an EHD on site and occasionally that is copied to a EHD kept off-site.
A few months ago I've started using online backup solution Backblaze which backs up my iMac and EHD but they don't support NASs. Very pleased with it and means that new imports and other new documents are backedup (erm what should the past tense be) straight away off-site compared to waiting for me to manually back them up to the NAS onsite then sometime later copied to the off-site backup.
All works well and I feel it's not a bad system. Two things I'm thinking of changing and like views on are:-
1. Could use auto backup software to backup mac to NAS. Any good, over the top as already have Backblaze, any suggestion of which software.
2. I'm thinking of buying another EHD, connecting to mac and moving my previous years images from the NAS to it therefore they would also be backed online by Backblaze. I would copy this EHD to NAS and then copy NAS to off-site as I do now. Reason not to just rely on Backblaze is that if you needed to retrieve all the images from Backblaze it would take weeks and weeks to download them.
After re reading the above I'm obviously totally paranoid about backing up (years of working with business data) and it looks totally OTT !!!
Be very interested in people thoughts (don't hesitate to say if you think I'm totally bonkers with whatI do) and also may be helpfully to others planning a backup strategy. Thanks
For a long time I've been keeping things as follows:-
Current year images on my iMac
Previous years images on my NAS (not enough room on mac to keep them there)
Import backup images on external drive connected to iMac
iMac is manually backed up onto NAS and the NAS is backed up onto an EHD on site and occasionally that is copied to a EHD kept off-site.
A few months ago I've started using online backup solution Backblaze which backs up my iMac and EHD but they don't support NASs. Very pleased with it and means that new imports and other new documents are backedup (erm what should the past tense be) straight away off-site compared to waiting for me to manually back them up to the NAS onsite then sometime later copied to the off-site backup.
All works well and I feel it's not a bad system. Two things I'm thinking of changing and like views on are:-
1. Could use auto backup software to backup mac to NAS. Any good, over the top as already have Backblaze, any suggestion of which software.
2. I'm thinking of buying another EHD, connecting to mac and moving my previous years images from the NAS to it therefore they would also be backed online by Backblaze. I would copy this EHD to NAS and then copy NAS to off-site as I do now. Reason not to just rely on Backblaze is that if you needed to retrieve all the images from Backblaze it would take weeks and weeks to download them.
After re reading the above I'm obviously totally paranoid about backing up (years of working with business data) and it looks totally OTT !!!
Be very interested in people thoughts (don't hesitate to say if you think I'm totally bonkers with whatI do) and also may be helpfully to others planning a backup strategy. Thanks