Tech-Talk Tuesday: Data Storage

May 13, 2014

  1. Awesome advice and I know your clients really appreciate knowing all of their images are safely stored with you! <3

  2. Dani says:

    Really great advice! And I am so thankful for backblaze! Seriously the best thing I did storage wise for my business.

  3. Lauren C says:

    So helpful!! I currently use external drives and Backblaze but I might have to look into a RAID system now. Thanks for the post!

  4. Emily says:

    Very helpful post! I always enjoy hearing about the systems other photographers use. I second everyone’s love for Backblaze – so great!

  5. Brea says:

    Great information! I’m sure it also helps to put your clients’ minds at ease knowing that you don’t trust their images to be safe without backup!

  6. Erin Wheeler says:

    Wonderful advice! I love backblaze!!

  7. thanks for sharing Natalie!!

  8. Mark Pacura says:

    Great idea! Good to hear some new useful advices!

  9. Yes! This is all so true!! Thank goodness my brother informed me about this when I started my business because I’ve had a computer fail on me before coming out of college and of COURSE everything was on it … Lesson learned! 🙂

  10. So many good tips!!! Thanks for sharing!
    xoxo

  11. Thank you so much for the great advice! Love visiting your blog and finding so much vital information! Been trying to re-work my data storage system and this post was so helpful 🙂 I have a question though, do you mind sharing what brand drive you use for the drobo system!? I know they take the solid state drives, but do you use Western Digital, Seagate, is there something else out there!? Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂

  12. Samantha says:

    Hi Natalie! Wonderful post! I am curious about one thing- I am reading about Backblaze and am ready to begin using it however it says that it mirrors your computer- I don’t leave my external hard drive plugged into my computer and it says that unless you plug it in every 30 days it won’t recognize those files and will actually delete them from backblaze! Is this something you have encountered? I want a cloud service that can basically act as an external hard drive that I can control what stays and what goes. Does Backblaze do this? I have been racking the internet to find a cloud service that will accomplish this for me. Thanks so much in advance! – Samantha

    • Samantha – My external hard-drives are always plugged into my main computer so this has not been an issue for me! However, I would reach out to Backblaze directly to see what they recommend! I would assume that as long as you connect the drive and let it backup to the cloud once every thirty days, it will update the new data that you’ve accrued and secure it – but I would check with the folks at BB directly!! Hope that helps!!

  13. I currently use dropbox to store my finished, edited jpgs of each wedding. I also use 3 different hard drives to store archived raw files and finished jpgs. I use aperture, so I don’t know if it allows me to seperate an edits file similar to the way you use lightroom. That would be something next on my list to look into.

    I would love to use backblaze, but the system I’ve found takes way too long to update with my slow as molasses connection.

  14. Natalie says:

    Thanks for the great post, Natalie! I was wondering–do you keep the RAW files that you don’t give to the client. Let’s say you shoot 4,000 images at a wedding, but cull down to 500-1,000…do you keep the remaining 3,000-3,500 in your hard drives or do you get rid of them? Btw, I love the idea of a separate catalog for each wedding! So helpful!

    • Natalie – For weddings, I keep the culled RAW Images that coordinate with the LR Catalog eternally, but unculled RAWs are removed about a month or so after the gallery is delivered. I hope that helps!

  15. Your Tech Talk Tuesdays totally rock. Thank you so much for all the insights and advice. I follow your work and admire it regularly.

    Would love to see a Tech Talk Tuesday discussing your reception lighting techniques.

    You are awesome!!

  16. Natalie, thanks for the tech tips! I use backblaze but need to invest in the RAID system.!

  17. Yay! I’ve been trying to figure out which online system to use 🙂

  18. Rebecca says:

    We love our Drobo….even use the Drobo Mini as our editing drives.

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