Crash Plan (Patreon)

One of the biggest pain in the butt things to do with photography is having your stuff backed up properly. 

I shoot mostly digital and the amount of storage needed seems to get harder and harder to manage. Last year I added another layer of protection by using a online cloud backup site called crash plan. www.crashplan.com

Up until this week it had been great but something in the past week has caused the background program to randomly crash. Been sort of frustrated the past two days troubleshooting and trying to get it to run smoothly. 

Guess this leads to this post and about backup strategy. 

To my iMac I have two 1 TB Lacie Rugged Thunderbolt Drives. One is the work drive and one is a clone of it so I have two copies of recently shot photos. As those fill up, the older files are then moved to a single 4TB Thunderbolt Drive ( thunderbolt for the speed over USB ). This drive is single, but everything on it has been backed up to Crashplan already. Right now I am in the debate on getting a second 4TB to mirror the first for one more layer of redundancy. Prices aren't too bad so this is what I will probably do soon, after I buy a lens I really need first. 

There is a year of work I lost due to multiple hard drive failures so I am quite paranoid about loosing things and try and have a better plan for backups. 

As long as I get this software issue sorted and Crash Plan gets back to normal, ill rest a bit easier. 

Point is this though - Hard Drives will fail. Make sure things are backed up at least once, if not more.