Everyone agrees backing up your computer is necessary but not all backup plans are effective. Here’s how to ensure you have the best computer backup plan giving you peace of mind knowing your computer is safe. It starts with the 3-2-1 Backup plan The 3-2-1 Backup plan is simple —
I tend to be a slow adopter of new technology. And, I fought the possibility of having a cloud backup, especially to backup photos from my computer for the longest time. I felt the upload to the cloud would be too tedious and take too much time for the amount
This is the story of the death of my Drobo. My entire digital life lived on a 5-bay Drobo RAID system. I won’t go into how a RAID system works; you can read more about that here. I do know that I have used this system for over 10 years
Most of us know that it is important to back up our data so we don’t risk losing our precious photos, videos and work. I prefer to back up the data using a combination of external hard drives and cloud-based backup (storage). For saving data to the cloud, I’ve been
Throughout my photographic career, I’ve tried several backup solutions both on-site and in the cloud. Having lost some photographs in the past, it was important for me to get a system I could count on to not only back up my files but do so in an efficient way that
In a blog post today, Backblaze announced the latest version of its Backblaze Cloud Backup service, Backblaze 7.0. In addition to providing full macOS Catalina support, Backblaze 7.0 support extended version history. Previously, Backblaze users were limited to a 30-day version history of backed up files. This meant that if
I recently wrote about my experience using Backblaze for backing up my computer files in the cloud. But Backblaze doesn’t backup certain parts of your system such as operating systems and applications. Here is what you need to do to be better protected in case of a data loss on
Most photographers would rather invest in new camera gear instead of investing in a backup solution for their images. I get it — new camera gear is a lot more exciting than hard drives. Nonetheless, you need a solid backup solution. Here’s how you can stretch your budget and save
A successful 3-2-1 Backup Plan (Three copies of your data: Two stored locally, one stored offsite) includes one copy of your data stored offsite preferably in the cloud. This has led to confusion between cloud storage and cloud backup. Here’s the difference between the two and why you should consider
After I migrated my Drobo gen. 3 device to a 5D3, it worked flawlessly for two days. Then, after a brief power outage, I was no longer able to mount my Drobo to my desktop. It was seen with the Drobo Dashboard app, but the hard drives would not mount.
The process of backing up refers to the copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data-loss event. Having a backup system in place can provide peace of mind; however that peacefulness will be short lived if you have chosen the
I plugged in my first-ever Drobo unit a few weeks ago. I realized my computer was out of hard drive space yet again and it just made sense to store my photography working files on the Drobo 5D. The transition to the Drobo was seamless. Now that I have been up
