Thread: cloud storage

I use Carbonite as well. They've been around awhile, the backup is seamless, it's all quite easy to deal with. I also have a local hard drive backup, figuring that for both my local backup and Carbonite to go soth simultaneously will require something like the end of the world.

-Ray

My images aren't valuable to anyone but me however I do have a multi layer backup in place.

For the cloud I use Carbonite (it just works away in the background), I also use Photobucket for a few images that I link to in forums. I have a removable USB HDD on which the Mac Time Machine keeps up to date files and as a final safety net I make a daily clone of my master HDD to an identical internal drive from which I can boot the Mac if the master drive fails.

Over the top, probably, but with storage so cheap, why not. When on vacation I can put the USB drive somewhere else. If the house burns down I have Carbonite (but none of my thousands of 35mm film prints in the cupboard!).

While storage is affordable, I sometimes think that the money could be spent elsewhere. But I then think about how much money I would be willing to spend to recover the files and I realize that cost to prevent that situation is only a fraction of the amount.