backup Archives

Crashplan ditches consumers, kills off “for Home” cloud backup service

Aug 23, 2017 John Aldred

I love the irony of their tagline. “Protect yourself from the inevitable”, which in this case is the closing down of their “for Home” service….

Mar 18, 2017 JP Danko

If you’re a travel photographer or just someone who wants to keep your photographs safe and secure while you’re in the field, one of your…

Dec 27, 2016 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

No matter if you are a professional photographer or a hobbyist, I’m sure your photos are important to you. Therefore, it’s essential to have a…

Nov 5, 2016 JP Danko

I have been using Dropbox for years now and I have never once had a problem with it…until a week ago when over 2000 files mysteriously…

Oct 17, 2016 John Aldred

I say “finally”, there used to be a number of them. Back when I shot a pair of D100 bodies back in 2002, I used…

Aug 23, 2016 John Aldred

My biggest problem with “the cloud” has always been that many cloud services seem to pop up overnight from nowhere. This means that they can also…

Aug 16, 2016 Udi Tirosh

Raise your hand if you ever lost/bricked/killed an iPhone or an Android*. Raise your other hand if that phone has lots of photos that you…

May 19, 2016 JP Danko

In my recent article “Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos” I made a case to encourage photographers to permanently delete…

Oct 4, 2015 Renato Murakami

In this post I’ll explain the structure and scheme that I personally use for backup. It’s not the cheapest, not the easiest, and perhaps not the…

Aug 15, 2015 Allen Mowery

As photographers, backing up our images has sort of become a passion, and so it should. The catch-22 in the situation is that hard drives…