June Friendly Back Up Reminder

Thanks for the reminder....must do it before I go away next week

 

Oh no, Courtney! That's one of my biggest photo fears. Mine isn't backed up. All of my pictures are triple backed up, it's just a question of finding them. I have hundreds of CD's (post EHD's).

 

Backblaze is currently backing up my 4 newest files.
And only the photos I've taken today aren't uploaded to Smugmug.

--Long time obsessive back-upper

edited to add: Actually, I also have a few scrapbook layouts to upload to Smugmug. I do it separately and always forget for weeks. Perhaps I'll get to that today.

 

And I'd like to point out how important the "redundancy" in your post is, Courtney, because people seem to forget that backing up to one place (EHD or the Cloud) but then deleting the file from your computer means that your backup file is now your only copy.

Anyway, I'm sorry your backup EHD is dead. but I know you're set with a backup of your backup! Hopefully you can get a new one set up quickly!

 

My EHD isn't backed up. Everything that's on there is backed up to other things, like CD's, etc. Everything I do is automatically backed up to Flicker, Google Pics, and iCloud. It's just the physical EHD that isn't backed up.

 

Backblaze is doing its job. EHD Backup did its job this morning (set for Tues and Fri mornings). I also copy all my digi files from my C drive to another EHD. It was current as of Tuesday night. Took a lot of photos today and may take more tomorrow and Sunday so I'll do that again on Sunday night after I have transferred phone photos from dropbox to my digi files on my C drive. Photos taken today have been transferred from camera to computer and uploaded to a dropbox shared folder since they were for someone else so they have been backupped

 

I need to look into Backblaze, or something like that. I know that I have everything backed up, so I haven't wanted to spend extra money to back up my EHD. I buy extra gigs on iCloud every month, so my pictures are all automatically backed up there + on Flickr and 2 Google accounts.

 

Just remember that there is more information than the digi stuff that should be backed up. My backblaze and the EHD backup include documents... financial spreadsheets, various bank statements, investment statements and many other documents that I don't want to lose. Then the digi stuff is just copied to the other EHD. I do believe that one of my backups also includes any program downloads that I have. That is how I can still use Picasa on a computer that I got after it was discontinued.

 

I downloaded Backblaze last night. It's downloading all of my files right now. I'm not sure how to back up my EHD's, but I guess I'll figure that out after it's done with my computer. It said that it might take several days to back everything up. Hopefully, they'll let me know when that's done. And yes, the price is great - I figured it was like some of the others, that are pretty pricey.

 

Thank you SO much Courtney! I'm glad I'm doing it right. I decided to do my laptop first - glad I made the right decision. I'll keep this info you posted for me.

 

Backblaze is being dumb for me. I have to call them .

I have backed up to a ehd too. I need to get Google photos up and running. Any tips?

 

Great reminder!!! THX!