Online Archiving? What are your thoughts...

Rodi · September 20, 2024, 08:58:13 AM

I work in a shop that reuses job numbers. They use it for the same or similar jobs from the same customer. I have been making DVD sized backups as I go. I also have an onsite backup of the last 100 DVDs burned. I Make duplicate DVDs for the owner to bring home just in case. DVDs being what they are, I have had issues with a few that burn but will not copy back. Fun!!! Losing hair quickly! This is also a pretty slow drawn out process. It's much better than what they had, which died the second month I was here.

I would like to do an online archiving of those older DVDs and start to burn folders to that instead of two DVDs.

Considering Backblaze $6.00 a Terabyte per month. We have about 2 TB.

What do you do, what do you think?

Thanks!!

David · September 20, 2024, 09:10:39 AM

I use an external 4 TB hard drive to back up job files. When it gets full, we get another one, they are not that expensive.
We burn all archived jobs to DVD, then copy the same to the external. We use Neofinder to catalog the external so we can do a quick search.

I don't trust online/internet storage, but that's just me. I'm old and cranky.

YMMV

born2print · September 20, 2024, 09:15:42 AM

I agree, keep the archives (on whatever media) yourself, offsite duplicate = all the better.

David · September 20, 2024, 09:21:06 AM

what he said

Joe · September 20, 2024, 09:32:43 AM

Any kind of media can fail like hard drives, DVD's, tape or anything else. So do have duplicates in other places if you go that route.

Data centers also use media but they are designed from the ground up for redundancy. But if you choose to do it use a reputable source. Backblaze is reputable as is Amazon AWS services, Microsoft Azure, Google, Apple and others. Stay away from fly by night options such as sites like Degoo. I learned the hard way on that for ridiculously great price for 15 tb of space lifetime for like $150 for my home archives as I had some TV shows and movies I bought on DVD that I ripped as .mkv files and stored on Degoo which is allowed for backups on bought media as well as old photos and files. Degoo banned me from the service for what they said was pirated video. Luckily I didn't put all of my eggs in that basket and I still had copies of everything that was there.

Rodi · September 20, 2024, 09:53:40 AM

I forgot to mention I do a backup to a WD HD with Ashampoo backup 25.

Time is the crushing thing with burning DVDs, they take forever and have lots redos. I have used windows and Ashampoo burn studio (free one) which yield about the same results.

born2print · September 20, 2024, 10:23:27 AM

Yeah, we gave-up DVDs a long long time ago.

DigiCorn · September 20, 2024, 10:52:46 AM

I haven't had to do archiving in forever, but when I did do it, we did two sets of DVDs (one onsite and one offsite), then a tape backup, a redundant tape backup and then a NAS with cloud backup.

The last place I worked had a RAID that backed up to a NAS, but here at the state, IT takes care of all that stuff so it's not my problem.

scottrsimons · September 23, 2024, 06:15:24 AM

At work we have 2 different NASs onsite that things get backed up to. And 1 offsite. Oh, another one onsite that turns on at a set time does the backup, and then turns off again. But nothing online.

Soon that may be changing to 1 or 2 onsite and then an online option.

At home, I only backup photos to my own NAS with a RAID.

I'm what the kids call "old school", I don't like online backups or much of anything else if I can avoid it. The only thing that it has come in handy for, was backing up my phone. Then it makes it really easy to change out phones.

Keeping control of your personal data is quite hard now a days with all the online options and "needs".

Tracy · September 23, 2024, 07:17:29 AM

agreed!

born2print · September 23, 2024, 09:38:39 AM

Good point about the cel phone switching, you have to use the cloud.
The stores don't have the magic boxes to transfer from old to new phone anymore, and haven't for a long time.

Rodi · September 23, 2024, 10:52:51 AM

Quote from: scottrsimons on September 23, 2024, 06:15:24 AMAt work we have 2 different NASs onsite that things get backed up to. And 1 offsite. Oh, another one onsite that turns on at a set time does the backup, and then turns off again. But nothing online.

Soon that may be changing to 1 or 2 onsite and then an online option.

At home, I only backup photos to my own NAS with a RAID.

I'm what the kids call "old school", I don't like online backups or much of anything else if I can avoid it. The only thing that it has come in handy for, was backing up my phone. Then it makes it really easy to change out phones.

Keeping control of your personal data is quite hard now a days with all the online options and "needs".

At home I backup to a extenal HD... pretty much just pictures for my wife.

At work I just want to have an offsite/cloud that will be less time consuming than the DVDs... I am presently 15 DVDs (30 burns) backward...

Anyone use backblaze?

DigiCorn · September 23, 2024, 12:31:21 PM

At home I have 2 different NAS drives: a Seagate Personal Cloud 8TB (something like 5TB storage) RAID and a Netgear 16 TB RAID (something like 12 TB storage). The Seagate is all my music (Apple lossless) and photos. The Netgear is all my movies and TV shows. I'm have about 8 TB data combined right now. I pay $49.99/mo to Google for 10 TB of backup storage and both NASes backup to Goodle Drive whenever new data is added.