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July 2, 2024

Providing Answers to Photographers for Over 22 Years!

Backing Up Your Photos

Today's question relates to my recommended workflow for backing up your photos and other important data. I shared a series of presentations related to a strategy for backing up photos in a GreyLearning Ultimate Event last year. The recordings of all presentations from the online event are included in the GreyLearning Ultimate Bundle (http://timgrey.me/atg99bundle), and are also available as a standalone course here:


https://www.greylearning.com/courses/greylearning-ultimate-event-backing-up-your-photos-may-2023

Today's Question

Can you clarify why you use both GoodSync and Backblaze to back up your photos, rather than just using one of the two?

Tim's Quick Answer:

I use both of these backup solutions because GoodSync (https://www.timgreyphoto.com/goodsync) is a good tool for backing up locally, and Backblaze (https://timgrey.me/cloudbackup) is a good tool for backing up remotely via cloud storage.

More Detail:

When it comes to a reliable workflow for backing up photos and other important data, I recommend following the "3-2-1" rule. This calls for maintaining three copies of your data, with two copies stored locally and one copy stored remotely.


I actually take this a little further, maintaining two local backups in addition to a remote backup. So, I use GoodSync to back up my primary drives to two additional drives. Each of those backup drives can easily replace the primary drive should I experience a failure of other issue with the drive.


To supplement my local backup workflow, I make use of Backblaze for an online backup, which serves as my primary offsite backup. This provides a backup that I can recover from even if I experience a disaster that causes all my local storage to be damaged or destroyed. As unlikely as this scenario may be (I hope!), the online backup provides additional peace of mind.


I covered my full backup workflow and provided much more information about defining and executing a workflow for backing up your photos in a GreyLearning Ultimate Event last year. Recordings of all presentations from this online event are available here:


https://www.greylearning.com/courses/greylearning-ultimate-event-backing-up-your-photos-may-2023

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