WalterB
Still on another medium? I thought photos were “hyper-protected” in the cloud! If my PC crashed or something went wrong, the cloud would remain inviolate and my photos would be preserved.
Another disappointment!
Freimmientis36 Swisscom has also already lost data. So talking about hyper-secure is very risky.
A solid backup concept is often based on the well-known “3-2-1 rule”. We show you what this involves and how easy it is to implement.
What does the 3-2-1 backup rule mean?
The 3-2-1 backup rule provides for the following backup strategy:
3: Three copies of all critical data
- the first copy is the original file you are working with
- the second copy is the local backup, e.g. on a USB data carrier
- the third copy is the cloud backup, which also ensures geographical separation and increased security.
2: Two different media/data carriers
Do not create the local backup on the internal system data carrier, but rather use a separate (external or internal) data carrier.
1: A copy of the data should be stored at a geographically separate location (offsite)
This is where cloud backup comes into play, as it can ensure geographical separation and greater security. The geographical separation is intended to ensure that the data can still be restored in the event of water damage, fire damage, theft or loss on the customer side, and the security measures in cloud data centres such as ours guarantee even greater protection against malware and hacker attacks.
Source: https://www.backup.ch/post/die-3-2-1-backup-regel/
Good evening and sorry to hear that you are having problems with your photos on the cloud. I was also using this backup method, but in the end I preferred to copy my files to an external hard drive and onto a USB stick at the same time.
I hope you find a satisfactory solution. 🍀🍀
Have a nice Sunday
JC
Thank you for your very detailed reply. It makes me think.
I have nearly 14,000 photos, images and videos in a folder called “Photos” (by the way I don’t even know what that is!!!) They appear by date and I downloaded them from my smartphone at several different times.
So I’d have to copy them to a USB stick. But is that really possible? Is it difficult or slow? And which key do I need?
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
An SSD for backups is actually “throwing pearls before swine”, i.e. simply unnecessarily too expensive.
It can be done, but a normal external USB hard disc is much cheaper and certainly more suitable for a pure backup.
Z. For example a WD Elements Portable which is available from 1 to 6 TB.
Here is an example with 2 TB:
https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/wd-elements-portable-2-tb-externe-festplatte-448766
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
By the way, if you don’t have large video libraries for backup, the external storage can also be significantly smaller.
Here’s another super-small USB stick that I often use myself.
It is available up to 1000 GB, here is the 256 GB version, which is actually already sufficient for most “normal users”:
https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/sandisk-ultra-dual-drive-go-256-gb-usb-a-usb-c-usb-stick-12453049
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
You can look up your real memory requirements yourself, then you will also know your actual target requirements.
By the way, a normal average photo has a memory size of about 3 MB.
14,000 photos of 3 MB each would result in approximately 42 GB.
Even if you only had extremely high-resolution JPEGs with, for example, 9 MB on average, there would still be more than 100% reserve storage space on the 256 GB stick with around 14,000 photos.
Incidentally, I currently have around 35,000 photos myself, which require a total of around 65 GB of memory.
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