Remote Backups
01 July 2008
Have you finally managed to get an onsite backup
system that works? If not, go and buy a Drobo and get back to this
later. Seriously.
Once you have your onsite redundancy thing nailed, then its time to address the second part of the backup problem: remote backups. It isn't good enough to have backups on a hard drive next to your computer if your studio or house burns down. Or if it sinks into a swamp. Or if it burns down, falls over and then sinks into the swamp.
My friends over at SmugMug (a rocking photo sharing/printing site) have just released a new feature that solves your problem.
Once you have your onsite redundancy thing nailed, then its time to address the second part of the backup problem: remote backups. It isn't good enough to have backups on a hard drive next to your computer if your studio or house burns down. Or if it sinks into a swamp. Or if it burns down, falls over and then sinks into the swamp.
My friends over at SmugMug (a rocking photo sharing/printing site) have just released a new feature that solves your problem.
Its called "SmugVault"
and its a way of backing up all your valuable Raw
files to Amazon's distributed data centers. No more
earthquake, flood or the appocalypse to take out your
collection of digital files.
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