Import your photos to a library, have Lightroom build smart previews of your photos (they average 1MB or so per photo), then upload your RAW files to the Cloud. If you’re uploading RAW photos, you might also want to use Adobe Lightroom or something similar to index your pictures first. Another great option is back up app Arq (Mac and Windows, $49.99) think of it as a Time Machine that sends your backups to Amazon or Google's clouds, instead of to an external drive. They work much like Finder or Explorer you login with your cloud service, drag in the files you want to send to the cloud, and wait for them to sync. Each of them now support Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and other popular cloud storage services. Your best bet is a classic FTP app, the kind used to upload files to your website’s server: Transmit (Mac, $45), ForkLift (Mac, $19.95), and CyberDuck (Mac and Windows, free) are all great options, with the paid ones offering more tools to help sync and deduplicate files. You’ll then need two things: An app to send your files to the cloud, and a cloud service to store your files. You’d rather offload all of your old footage, clear out your local hard drives, and never have to think about it again, trusting that a single copy in Amazon or Google’s clouds is worth two in the back of your house. The more complicated, pay-as-you-go cloudīut maybe you want to just directly send your files to the cloud and call it a day. It just requires keeping a local copy of your files around, and hooking your external drives back up to your computer every so often. That’s a pretty good deal, the closest thing to iCloud you can get to back up all of your Lightroom libraries. Or, you can pay an extra $2/month for extended version history, and for a total of $9/month you could backup all of your external drives and keep their files stored in the cloud, as long as you connect them to your computer once a year. There’s just one catch: You have to connect your external hard drives to your computer once every month to keep them backed up. For $7/month, services like Blackblaze can backup all of your files to the cloud. You’ll need to retrieve the second hard drive every time you make a new backup-or buy a new secondary hard drive to store the new files then send to your backup location. The hard part is keeping your backups up-to-date. With documents and other files that have a change history, backing up with an app like Apple’s Time Machine is best to keep a copy of every version of the files as they took shape. With photos, footage, and other files that don’t change, copying the files themselves is easy enough. Buy a couple external hard drives (and any are good enough the larger, slower, external drives like this one from Seagate will be the best bang-for-your-buck), copy all of your files to both drives, and store one somewhere else-a safety deposit box, your mom’s attic, anywhere other than where you keep your computer and primary drive. You could do that manually-and frankly, that’s still the cheapest option today. If your computer blows up or your house burns down, the backup’s ready to save the day. Keep one copy of your files on your computer or local hard drives, another copy stored somewhere offsite.
The only true backup is a copy of your data stored somewhere else.
#Backblaze storage full#
Here’s the full details, with a guide to back up your photos and videos and other large files in the cloud. Amazon’s S3 storage comes in eight tiers ranging from $0.025 to $0.002 per GB of storage-a 12.5x disparity that’s the difference between reasonably priced cloud storage and paying $0.50/month to store a one-hour 4k video.Īfter a bit of digging, the cheapest options are either Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3's Glacier Deep Archive-with some caveats. That’s perfect for your writing and standard documents, reasonable enough for your iPhone photos, but both far too small and expensive to back up RAW footage.Įnterprise, developer-focused cloud storage is far more scalable and reasonably priced-and confusing. You’ll spend $9.99/month for 2TB of iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox storage. What’s still not exactly cheap is cloud storage. At that rate, even 5TB hard drives start sounding small. That’s a good thing, when your average RAW photo today weighs in at 40-80MB, when one gigabyte will only store 3 minutes of standard 4K footage or less than a second of RAW 8K footage. Now, for a third of that price, you can get a 6TB external hard drive or a 1TB SSD. The first consumer 1TB hard drive cost $399.
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