Brent Durand
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Photo Backup Essentials
Are you backing up your underwater photo and video correctly?
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Here’s what we discuss:
2:07 – Hard Drives – Home & Dive Travel
3:38 – Cloud Backups
4:27 – RAID Drives
5:57 – 4 Pro Tips
This video is part of my “Your Questions Answered” series….
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I listed a few of my favorite Hard Drives and SD cards in the description. What are you guys using? What do you recommend?
Maybe an odd question. I use Lightroom. When importing photos Lightroom "links" to the photo location on the drive (using Mac). Where are you storing the "main" copy of the photo that Lightroom is accessing if you should avoid keeping them on the Mac's hard drive to keep optimal performance? At this point, I keep in my iCloud Documents folder, however storage will eventually become an issue. Wondering if there is a more seamless solution to keep from breaking what Lightroom is accessing as the file location.
Thanks for interestin video. I have used Raid based NAS server now for over fifteen years. The only challenges I have had with those servers is that the lifetime of a disk is about three years. Therefore I change the disks every three years even if the olds are ok. Even I have had two times crashed disk I haven't lost any images. However, it is worth to make an off-line backup every now and then and keep it away from the premises just as you explained. It is worth to mention that my current NAS provides soace for much more than only images. It is really a flexible tool.
My process:
On a trip: import into Lightroom onto laptop and have a second copy made to a external SSD. I leave the original on the sd card. If Wi-Fi is available I let lightroom sync to cloud (lowing res but still another backup). On the way home ssd, laptop, sd cards go in different bags.
Once Home: Laptop backs up to Synology NAS. NAS does a backup to a cloud service. Then I move files from laptop to NAS. And a periodically make a hard drive backup that is then stored off site.
The SSDs are very light and low powered so I can use my android phone to check its contents and make copies of the contents as necessary. Cloud and autosynchs are a bit risky, I lost my backup because it synched a deleted folder to the cloud, lucky to have copies in my SSD, and also bandwith can be expensive during travel.