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07/15/2016 12:52:38 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by JakeKurdsjuk:
Originally posted by Ja-9:
ok, pretend you have 8/9 TB's of photo's....keeping them on EHD's at home is just plain cumbersome!!! I have 6/7 EHD's....maybe I should get a "mothership" and transfer all to that (oh, but that makes me nervous too...all my eggs in one basket....eeeaaaakkkk!!!) |
I don't have to pretend. The key is how you organize.
I use Lightroom. My primary catalog tracks everything I've shot this year and finished copies of things I've "published". The catalog is all Raw files, published work is full size, full resolution JPEGs. I keep about 3-4 months of work on my computer and the rest gets migrated gradually to a USB drive, with the catalog pointing to both (when the drive is not connected I can still access the previews and the metadata - I don't need to connect until I actually need to open the file). The USB drive I use is where those photo files will eventually spend eternity and eventually I've migrated the full year off. When that happens, the previous year's work is then used to generate a new, year specific Lightroom catalog, effectively putting the shots in 2 catalogs. When that's done, I disconnect the drive and then delete the catalog entries for the previous year's work from the active catalog.
I have catalogs going back to 2011 with all my files. The catalog and preview files are kept on my computer so I can search each catalog without connecting the associated external drive. If I want to work on something I create a collection named something creative like "stuff I need to work on" and when I'm ready I'll plug in the drive and work on it (I may opt to temporarily move it or save my PSD file to a directory on my computer).
Each USB drive has a physical label on it telling me that it's a Lightroom catalog backup and what years. I then get a second USB drive of the same type and size, name it the exact same thing, and then copy the contents of one drive to another. That one gets the same set of labels with the addition of "backup".
It's not that hard. The key is to make sure that when you do anything to something already moved to an external drive that you then copy those files to the backup drive. |
This is so.... ORGANIZED!! I'm sort of all over the place, and shamefully, I haven't learned how to take advantage of LR's cataloging features... |
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07/15/2016 02:22:41 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Y'all are way beyond where I am for storage needs, LOL... what Jake is doing seems highly effective, but also labor-intensive to some degree (I'm sure it's pretty straight-forward for him). Bottom line is that external HDDs in 4TB size are readily available, and it's not difficult to break up work into "active" and "archive". The archive yoiu never need to deal with, just maintain the two copies, and realize that eventually you will migrate the data to a new home as technology changes (would you still want to go back and re-connect old drives with outdated connectivity like PATA, SCSI, etc.?) |
Good God NOOOOOO!!! |
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07/15/2016 02:30:31 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
Originally posted by kirbic:
... eventually you will migrate the data to a new home as technology changes (would you still want to go back and re-connect old drives with outdated connectivity like PATA, SCSI, etc.?) |
Good God NOOOOOO!!! |
I have a relatively large collection of legacy devices so that I can try and recover old stuff which was never "migrated" to newer formats ... however regardless of the media type I find they all seem to conform to the "PITA" protocol ... :-( |
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07/15/2016 04:43:45 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
Good God NOOOOOO!!! |
LOL, my thoughts exactly!
Originally posted by GeneralE:
... however regardless of the media type I find they all seem to conform to the "PITA" protocol ... :-( |
Ahhh-yep! |
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07/15/2016 07:58:48 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
Originally posted by LN13:
I've never used it, but Amazon Glacier is $0.007 per gigabyte per month |
what do you look under for this. I tried searching for Amazon Glacier but it doesn't come up. |
AWS Glacier
If you have Prime, there's also Amazon Prime Photos. |
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07/15/2016 08:03:46 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by Ann:
Originally posted by Ja-9:
Originally posted by LN13:
I've never used it, but Amazon Glacier is $0.007 per gigabyte per month |
what do you look under for this. I tried searching for Amazon Glacier but it doesn't come up. |
AWS Glacier
If you have Prime, there's also Amazon Prime Photos. |
Ann, is it a back up system or a parking n store system? |
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07/16/2016 11:48:41 AM · #32 |
Glacier is very aptly named. It is intended to be a long term storage system, not working storage. If you want working storage, S3 is what you want, but is less cheap.
For photos, Amazon Prime Photos is probably a better choice regardless. |
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07/16/2016 07:04:27 PM · #33 |
There is certainly an issue with legacy devices ( what drive will connect in 5 years time) - but also a problem with cloud based storage. These seem to come and go or change their conditions at whim. Even looking at OneDrive and the changes they have made in the last 2 years.
It certainly is a modern day issue for digital photography. A few years ago it was a debate over what file formats will be around - what file format is truely a long term "negative". We also have the storage problem.
Unfortunately - with either system we are going to be constantly ( and manually shifting where our files are. |
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