Digital BW, The Print

Paul and all,

The cloud is real and its hear to stay.     As internet bandwidth continues to increase you will see more and more cloud services.     My Comcast cable speed is routinely in the 35mbps range via wifi and approaches 50mbps.    Companies like Carbonite offer unlimited backup for less than $100 per year.    This should be viewed as OFF-Site backup rather than something you use often.    You do have the capability to download files from a remote client which makes it nice.

With the price of Disk Drives dropping there is no reason not to have a solid back up strategy.   I learned the hard way.   Currently I have a Netgear NAS Raid drive as my primary backup.      All files are backup automatically to this NAS drive as they are loaded on to my computer.    I then Monthly copy all files to a separate drive for storage off site.

Regards,
Paul
On May 13, 2013, at 3:04 PM, jimbo <mrjimbo@...> wrote:

> 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
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