I'm a wedding filmmaker and I've been rocking 4 ProGrade 128gb V90 cards for my 2 cameras for 3 years. I dump everything on a working SSD, copy everything to a big WD 12TB backup HDD, and in the future would like to upload to a cloud for backup as well. I've tried backblaze, but what it didn't work with my workflow because I work on different drives for different projects. If I had a NAS that was always connected, that would be a great workflow.
I really hope you're backing up that client data somewhere if people are paying you money... Right now, that hard drive you are dumping things on to, isn't really a backup. Try to practice the the 3-2-1 method, which means having at least 3 total copies of your data, 2 of which are local but on different mediums (read: devices/hard drives), and at least 1 copy offsite/in the cloud. You could start by at least getting another 12gb external drive and backing up your existing one to it every couple of weeks and storing it at a friends house.
I recently had a hard drive fail on me and it was devastating. Years worth of work gone and non recoverable. This is a great video and helped me understand the 3-2-1 rule better. Thanks for the info!
I offload my SD cards to a working SSD & HD. HD backup to Cloud. (I have Carbon Copy Cloner running in the background copying my SSD to an external HD on a reg basis)
I'm no pro photographer...but I don't like losing my photos. I run 2x UHSII V90 Lexar 128gb in my R7. I offload my shoots to, for now, a single 1TB Samsung EVO SSD (I have a second that was my boot drive off my older PC which i am worning on recovering old files from). I have 3 external SSDs of varying sizes for long term and backup. And any photos i share go onto thumbdrives which are hard to find in less than 16gb, but are fairly cheap as a disposable travel media. I don't do cloud since its a paid service i don't recoup from, and a NAS is just overkill.
@sznikers I don't have any overflow right now. I grabbed these for cheap off auction sites. They did come in handy when I went to Cuba, since my laptop doesn't have much storage. Right now, they're being used to host whatever I can't stick into my internals.
You're going to lose your data eventually. SSDs and NVME's NEED electricity periodically. If they don't get used often, then the data becomes corrupt from bitrot. Always backup to 2 mechnical drives. Keep 1 at home and 1 off-site. Also have a copy of everything in the cloud in case of a catastrophe like a fire, flood or hurricane, etc.....
@omegatek6905 I do have a mechanical HD, but it's quite old and has been hosting all my much older shots, amongst other things. I'm doing everything on the cheap right now before I worry about my lower cost components.
I think if you're not a pro it's difficult to justify the expense and complication. But cloud backup for such a small amount of space is less than £10 a month. So it's probably worth it .
Question about the cloud... you don't use iCloud or Google Drive/Photos? But if you are somewhere and need to access the data, can you do it via Backblaze?
Great video - I needed to see this - very informative. One question, where in your system does the first 16TB HDD sit? In an external HDD enclosure separate from your NAS? If so what is that enclosure? Keep up the great videos = new subscriber!
Easy for me, my raw files go straight onto my NAS and that’s backed up each night and backed up offsite regularly. I might copy the files back from the NAS to my external SSD and edit from there but usually just edit from off the NAS. I’m in no rush otherwise I would work from files off my MacBook Pro and make use of the SSD speed
What would you recommend for someone who just has a lot photos on their iPhone? I have alot of videos and pictures of my child I want to keep safe. Is this overkill? Or would a simple hdd work?
So using all those external portable SSDs as some type of extra backup is ok but not my ideal strategy. Also using them to edit your projects while they are fast is not ideal. However, if it works for you then great. The rest is ok with using the NAS, cloud backup, and also using the drives on your computer is fine.
Ok, good video but the simplest method ive found is (if you have a small-medium budget) Get a NAS that you can expand as you go Get a Mac mini Pro with 10GB Ethernet connection Work directly off your NAS with the 10GB Back up to one large spinning drive, and connect to back blaze when that drive is full archive it (like how you said) When you travel for job back every thing up to an SSD, and don't format one card, and put them in separate bags. You'll have every backed up on 3 spinning drives (2 on the NAS and the 1 external drive) and backed up the cloud if you house burns down. Simple Budget Option 2X HHD drives, 5TB each (mirror backup) 1X 16TB HHD (back blaze backup) 1X 1-4TB SSD (working drive, delete as you finish projects) Again You'll have every backed up on 3 spinning drives (2 on the mirrored 5tb HHD and the 1 external drive) and backed up the cloud if you house burns down. also, get your data off SD cards as soon as possible as it's very hard to recover Data from a SD card or a SSD, while you almost can always recover data from a spinning disk! Im a wedding photographer who does 80+ weddings a year, and after a wedding overseas or interstate, I load all my data from my 2 camera body's (dual 256GB pro grade V90 cards) to an 4TB SSD, and then upload to my NAS overnight. Having fast SSD is a must as 2 cards takes less time for me to have a shower, and then I just drop the folder into my NAS and go to sleep!
Hey! So do you actually just have one copy of a wedding archived on back blaze? Because that doesn't sound like enough storage to have a second copy of an archived project. So you upload to back blaze and then delete of off the large spinning drive? I'm a videographer so need to use a lot more space but still 80+ weddings a year with essentially 21tb of drive space, or is photography not that much space. Presumably you delete?
I've had multiple Lexar cards fail on me. Sandisk has been solid for SD, but the 4TB SSD I got collects dust now because I'm scared to use it with their SSD's failing.
When transferring photos, do you directly transfer from memory card to your portable ssd? Because when transferring, I first save my photos in the local storage then transfer it to my portable ssd. I am just afraid that there will be errors when I directly transfer it to the portable ssd.
i normally like your videos, but this one is a bit all over the place and not really helpful imo .. not sure if it is just me or really the video my recommendation: i personally would always shoot to two sd cards, copy the files to an external ssd like you, have an automated backup to my server and then an offsite backup server in case the first one fails i feel like that your solution has a lot of redundancy, but i feel like it could be simpler! not saying my solution is better, i still try to figure out, if i should copy both sd cards in case some data is corrupt on one sd card or if i should store it away for a while till i start editing, but like you say, those cards are brutally expensive, especially type a cards for sony! so yeah, nothing is perfect and there is always a way to improve! maybe really show the process how you have yours setup .. program wise on your computer, which server (probably synology) and what software etc.
For the best way is take those cards and upload them to a NAS running RAID 5 then I import those into Capture One. Twice a week I take a backup of the NAS to another single drive large enough to handle the NAS. This way I don't need to have all the single drives hanging around. So I have the photos in 3 places, the NAS, the external drive and the computer. Forget the cloud too slow, ongoing costs and someone else's computer.
I keep my cards in the plastic cases that Sandisk gives you with their mid-range cards then they are tossed in my camera bag when driving and put in my pocket when I am out walking about, since I stopped using PNY I have not had an SD card fail, I have 1 GB Sandisk cards from the mid-2000s that are still used in trail cams. for backups and redundancy, I copy the data from my SD cards to my PC, once on the PC I format the card using my camera, once a week my NAS checks in on my desktop and copies any new data from my desktop to its HDDs (it's got 6 2tb HDDs with 2 as redundancy), then once a month my NAS and a friends NAS on the other side of the US check up on each other and back up each other's data, we hate subscriptions if you can't tell.
Damn, getting into more serious gear with data and storage, but this is a dependency and pain to store 1000% times different files. Imagine if electricity runs out for some days, we would lose it all. I hope people find a more easy way to not stress about all those things, and just let it be!
How do you store yout data? Did i miss any important information?
I'm a wedding filmmaker and I've been rocking 4 ProGrade 128gb V90 cards for my 2 cameras for 3 years. I dump everything on a working SSD, copy everything to a big WD 12TB backup HDD, and in the future would like to upload to a cloud for backup as well. I've tried backblaze, but what it didn't work with my workflow because I work on different drives for different projects. If I had a NAS that was always connected, that would be a great workflow.
I mostly shoot video but I'm the same boat. Love those Prograde cards!
Great cards! And good point. Backblaze doesn't like when you disconnect drives often.
Use iDrive cloud backup. Setup the folders and paths and it’ll auto bsck up when connected
Also. Cheaper per TB compared to backblaze
I really hope you're backing up that client data somewhere if people are paying you money... Right now, that hard drive you are dumping things on to, isn't really a backup. Try to practice the the 3-2-1 method, which means having at least 3 total copies of your data, 2 of which are local but on different mediums (read: devices/hard drives), and at least 1 copy offsite/in the cloud. You could start by at least getting another 12gb external drive and backing up your existing one to it every couple of weeks and storing it at a friends house.
Let me grab a pen and paper..... The architect kicked in!
It did! 😉
I recently had a hard drive fail on me and it was devastating. Years worth of work gone and non recoverable. This is a great video and helped me understand the 3-2-1 rule better. Thanks for the info!
I Was waiting for this!
I offload my SD cards to a working SSD & HD. HD backup to Cloud. (I have Carbon Copy Cloner running in the background copying my SSD to an external HD on a reg basis)
Great information, thanks. My offsite backup strategy is two hard drives that I rotate between home and my office.
I'm no pro photographer...but I don't like losing my photos. I run 2x UHSII V90 Lexar 128gb in my R7. I offload my shoots to, for now, a single 1TB Samsung EVO SSD (I have a second that was my boot drive off my older PC which i am worning on recovering old files from). I have 3 external SSDs of varying sizes for long term and backup. And any photos i share go onto thumbdrives which are hard to find in less than 16gb, but are fairly cheap as a disposable travel media. I don't do cloud since its a paid service i don't recoup from, and a NAS is just overkill.
Back up on unconnected SSD? You do realize they bitrot? Flash cells they're made of need to be refreshed or they lose charge and therefore data.
@sznikers
I don't have any overflow right now. I grabbed these for cheap off auction sites. They did come in handy when I went to Cuba, since my laptop doesn't have much storage. Right now, they're being used to host whatever I can't stick into my internals.
You're going to lose your data eventually. SSDs and NVME's NEED electricity periodically. If they don't get used often, then the data becomes corrupt from bitrot. Always backup to 2 mechnical drives. Keep 1 at home and 1 off-site. Also have a copy of everything in the cloud in case of a catastrophe like a fire, flood or hurricane, etc.....
@omegatek6905
I do have a mechanical HD, but it's quite old and has been hosting all my much older shots, amongst other things. I'm doing everything on the cheap right now before I worry about my lower cost components.
I think if you're not a pro it's difficult to justify the expense and complication. But cloud backup for such a small amount of space is less than £10 a month. So it's probably worth it .
Question about the cloud... you don't use iCloud or Google Drive/Photos? But if you are somewhere and need to access the data, can you do it via Backblaze?
Great video - I needed to see this - very informative. One question, where in your system does the first 16TB HDD sit? In an external HDD enclosure separate from your NAS? If so what is that enclosure? Keep up the great videos = new subscriber!
Nice overview, Anthony. Thank you.
how long term is long term? I mean I prolly have an SD card with data that has been working for 10+ years
Which Veeam product are you using. Love this design workflow.
Easy for me, my raw files go straight onto my NAS and that’s backed up each night and backed up offsite regularly. I might copy the files back from the NAS to my external SSD and edit from there but usually just edit from off the NAS. I’m in no rush otherwise I would work from files off my MacBook Pro and make use of the SSD speed
Thoughts on shooting straight to SSD?
I had the B2 backup from back blaze for my NAS (50TB) and it got expensive quick.. upwards of $300+ a month.
That's the problem I'm quickly running into
I decided to let BB go and trust in my NAS's redundancy. I mean isn't that what RAID 0 is for right? @@AnthonyGugliotta
What would you recommend for someone who just has a lot photos on their iPhone? I have alot of videos and pictures of my child I want to keep safe. Is this overkill? Or would a simple hdd work?
Can you share the video referring about the corrupted memory cards?
It was an Instagram Reel. I'll see if I can find it again and share it in my newsletter later this week! 🤗
And are you using lightroom to edit you photos? If so, is it classic so there is no limit on space?
Best card reader for sd cards
Great video!
So using all those external portable SSDs as some type of extra backup is ok but not my ideal strategy. Also using them to edit your projects while they are fast is not ideal. However, if it works for you then great. The rest is ok with using the NAS, cloud backup, and also using the drives on your computer is fine.
Ok, good video but the simplest method ive found is (if you have a small-medium budget)
Get a NAS that you can expand as you go
Get a Mac mini Pro with 10GB Ethernet connection
Work directly off your NAS with the 10GB
Back up to one large spinning drive, and connect to back blaze when that drive is full archive it (like how you said)
When you travel for job back every thing up to an SSD, and don't format one card, and put them in separate bags.
You'll have every backed up on 3 spinning drives (2 on the NAS and the 1 external drive) and backed up the cloud if you house burns down.
Simple Budget Option
2X HHD drives, 5TB each (mirror backup)
1X 16TB HHD (back blaze backup)
1X 1-4TB SSD (working drive, delete as you finish projects)
Again You'll have every backed up on 3 spinning drives (2 on the mirrored 5tb HHD and the 1 external drive) and backed up the cloud if you house burns down.
also, get your data off SD cards as soon as possible as it's very hard to recover Data from a SD card or a SSD, while you almost can always recover data from a spinning disk!
Im a wedding photographer who does 80+ weddings a year, and after a wedding overseas or interstate, I load all my data from my 2 camera body's (dual 256GB pro grade V90 cards) to an 4TB SSD, and then upload to my NAS overnight. Having fast SSD is a must as 2 cards takes less time for me to have a shower, and then I just drop the folder into my NAS and go to sleep!
Hey! So do you actually just have one copy of a wedding archived on back blaze? Because that doesn't sound like enough storage to have a second copy of an archived project. So you upload to back blaze and then delete of off the large spinning drive? I'm a videographer so need to use a lot more space but still 80+ weddings a year with essentially 21tb of drive space, or is photography not that much space. Presumably you delete?
Same question here
I've had multiple Lexar cards fail on me. Sandisk has been solid for SD, but the 4TB SSD I got collects dust now because I'm scared to use it with their SSD's failing.
Wasn't that limited to a specific external ssd that was overheating?
@@sznikers the story goes that it was the newer 4tb models that were failing
Thanks for your helpful video. You said that people tend not to like the Western Digital SSDs. Why is that?
i love your videos!
When transferring photos, do you directly transfer from memory card to your portable ssd? Because when transferring, I first save my photos in the local storage then transfer it to my portable ssd. I am just afraid that there will be errors when I directly transfer it to the portable ssd.
i normally like your videos, but this one is a bit all over the place and not really helpful imo .. not sure if it is just me or really the video
my recommendation: i personally would always shoot to two sd cards, copy the files to an external ssd like you, have an automated backup to my server and then an offsite backup server in case the first one fails
i feel like that your solution has a lot of redundancy, but i feel like it could be simpler! not saying my solution is better, i still try to figure out, if i should copy both sd cards in case some data is corrupt on one sd card or if i should store it away for a while till i start editing, but like you say, those cards are brutally expensive, especially type a cards for sony! so yeah, nothing is perfect and there is always a way to improve!
maybe really show the process how you have yours setup .. program wise on your computer, which server (probably synology) and what software etc.
For the best way is take those cards and upload them to a NAS running RAID 5 then I import those into Capture One. Twice a week I take a backup of the NAS to another single drive large enough to handle the NAS. This way I don't need to have all the single drives hanging around. So I have the photos in 3 places, the NAS, the external drive and the computer. Forget the cloud too slow, ongoing costs and someone else's computer.
The challenge is my NAS is currently 50TB, so backing that up requires... another NAS 😌
Awesome helpful video
As someone with photography as a hobby, I put my photos onto a portable hard drive and then back it up to a bigger hard drive
This is such a great video! Especially appreciated the diagram for us visual learners.
Can anyone help me? I am trying to find a program that backs up a hard drive with a cloud storage( or sync)
Maybe an SSD comparison video? 🤔😁
Guys I really! Really!! Need to know how y'all save your family photos and videos because i need to so loke external ssd or whT ???
I keep my cards in the plastic cases that Sandisk gives you with their mid-range cards then they are tossed in my camera bag when driving and put in my pocket when I am out walking about, since I stopped using PNY I have not had an SD card fail, I have 1 GB Sandisk cards from the mid-2000s that are still used in trail cams.
for backups and redundancy, I copy the data from my SD cards to my PC, once on the PC I format the card using my camera, once a week my NAS checks in on my desktop and copies any new data from my desktop to its HDDs (it's got 6 2tb HDDs with 2 as redundancy), then once a month my NAS and a friends NAS on the other side of the US check up on each other and back up each other's data, we hate subscriptions if you can't tell.
5:35 It's a solar eclipse, mark your calendar on April 8th + nice KNF filter
Woo backblaze is great!
people who get into photos and videos should always have their own nas
Can someone please tell me HOW TO KEEP MY SD CARDS IN THOSE RUBBER POCKETS WITHOUT DISLODGING???
Buy a new holder? Sounds like you have a poorly designed thing
@@jambononi nope, I've had 3 and they all do the same thing. One is a Pelican case...
I like it...
Damn, getting into more serious gear with data and storage, but this is a dependency and pain to store 1000% times different files. Imagine if electricity runs out for some days, we would lose it all. I hope people find a more easy way to not stress about all those things, and just let it be!
That architectural style drawing came in clutch lol
AND A BACK UP AND A BACK UP AND A BACK UP AND A BACK UP AND A BACK UP!!!!!!
AND PAY AND PAY AND PAY UR LIFE AWAY FOR BACKUP 😂😂😂😂
So many Casey Neistat impersonators.
had to watch at 2x speed 😐
It's ND one million 🙄
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