Hey, I was wondering if anyone uses an online backup software for all their pics that backs everything up maybe once a day? I wanted to see of there was one that anyone recommends?

Thanks!
Rebecca

Photoshelter Personal Archive
Over 100 weddings from the last 3 years

After paying a couple thousand recovering my failed harddrive, lesson learned.

We now have a raid setup and are looking into Carbonite offsite storage. Anyone use them?

i'm also curious about this and have been looking into egnyte. ($15/month for unlimited storage)

anyone have any insight?

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I've been using Jungle Disk with Amazon S3. I don;t keep them there forever. Just till the job is done, filed, and backed up offsite. It's my failsafe and it's cheap.

I'll have to look at photoshelter

I use Amazon S3 for personal stuff, and items that I don't have to see.

The great thing about PhotoShelter is that it has a user interface, so I can see the images, and I can set up galleries for the client to see them.

With S3, I would have to download it from S3 to see it.

Mike

Photoshelter looks neat. but it is spendy. Archiving a lot of wedding would cost like 1000 a year. I can buy a lo of HD space and do my own offsite storage for that it seems.

They run specials, and if you contact them you can probably get the same deal - buy 1TB for $500 a year.

The problem with hard drives, its not if they go bad, its when.

Plus if you need access to your images, you have to go retrieve them from your secure, off site location - safety deposit box for me. If you are not storing them offsite, its not really back up because if your house burns down, then so do the hard drives.

With Photoshelter, you can access the images from anywhere.

I had a bride from last year who wanted one image for an anniversary party. Even though she received a disc as part of her package it was unavailable (at a parents house), but I was able to e-mail her the image even though I was on vacation - logged into PhotoShelter and downloaded it and sent it to her. I charged her a $50 retrieval fee.

Mike

Carbonite is $50 a year for unlimited storage. Not sure how it works. My boss uses it and he swears by it. I haven't looked into it too deeply. But it is an option.