Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,
Constructively...this thing called the cloud is in it's early stages presently.. Frankly I think it's kind of a fad thing in a way.. but their are some honest benefits depending upon how you look at it.. At any rate first they have no liability with your data if they break. Second the concept of true security with ones work is still an issue.. Third  I don't know how large your working files are but mine are often quite large typically  so it's like watching paint dry uploading or downloading.. In concept if you had a 2 TB drive that was your home back up.. and you moved that to the cloud with typical connections it would a couple of days to upload or retrieve the data the process both ways is very slow as compared to what were used to. All that being said.. It is a form of back up but so is just having another disk loaded up and off site. 
Many people are working off laptops today... I'm not but many do.. The bigges issue is teh screen accuracy on most of them.. but most can run anothe rmonitor that can be color managed.. I don't know how much data you need to back up.. I have redundant back ups of all working files in house and also use SSD's for  a third BU that's off site.. (The price of these has really come down to where it makes sense ...even 64GB flash drives are cost effective today.. )
So how much data are we talking? 

jimbo


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 2:55 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] OT - Laptop and cloud image editing?


    
  With my main/desktop crashed, a weak laptop, and not such a great backup routine, I wonder if laptops and commercial cloud back-up are at a place where they can work for the large digital files full frame cameras produce, as well as serious image editing and printing work.

  I have a new hard disc that I'll probably just stuff into my existing Dell box, but the interruption of my work that this crash has caused has certainly gotten my attention.

  I suppose there are 2 issues -- computer power and cloud backup -- that probably need to be dealt with individually. 

  I must say, it's been a very long time since I've had a hard disk crash before retiring the computer for other reasons.

  Paul
  www.PaulRoark.com 



  
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