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Dropbox is a changing on mac os and not the direction I'd like.

If you use cloud storage, which one, why. Budget for me is £200/year which got my 3tb with Dropbox.

1. I already use onedrive at work and we get msoffice thrown in.
2. Using a mac studio with ventura os.
3. Want it to be a straight transfer
4. Even a completely new solution, external drives and backup only essentials in cloud would be considered.
5. About 20k of raw files, but really they will be culled to the few.

Advice and guidance snd experiences would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
I only have experience of iCloud as it suits my use case (iPhone,iPad,MacBook) and everything just syncs seamlessly between my devices so no matter which one I’m on I always have what I want.

Price wise I get it (200gb) as part of the Family Plan with Music and everything.

2TB is £6.99 per month though so comfortably under your budget if 2TB is enough.

Personally I have a limited amount of my photos on it, hence only having the 200gb, but that’s more because I tend to put them on my external SSD which connects to my iPad Pro happily so that’s just the way I have worked.
I would have no issues storing them all on iCloud though.

The only possible issue and I don’t know if it actually is one would be if you left the ecosystem. I don’t know what iCloud access is like from non Apple devices.
 
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jerry12953 said:
Amazon prime has unlimited photo storage included in the monthly subscription (£8.99 I think) . I'm on the point of subscribing to that.
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Interesting. I may have a look as we already have Prime but don’t use any of the extra features.

I wonder if that unlimited storage only applies to certain formats though. If it includes all types of RAW though that could be good.
 
GreenNinja67 said:
I believe RAW are not supported in this on Prime.

Although things may have changed.
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I back up to Prime including Canon .CR3 and .CR3 and Leica DNG files. Video files are included but are quite limited, I pay a couple of quid a month for extra video storage.

I do find the sync time is not exactly quick and would like something that runs a bit smoother but given the relatively low price it is something I can put up with for now.


Edit: Thinking about it for a second, there is a check box for upload all which enable upload of XMP sidecars and possibly the RAW files I can't remember it was a while since I set up the back ups.
 
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zx9 said:
I back up to Prime including Canon .CR3 and .CR3 and Leica DNG files. Video files are included but are quite limited, I pay a couple of quid a month for extra video storage.

I do find the sync time is not exactly quick and would like something that runs a bit smoother but given the relatively low price it is something I can put up with for now.


Edit: Thinking about it for a second, there is a check box for upload all which enable upload of XMP sidecars and possibly the RAW files I can't remember it was a while since I set up the back ups.
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.......that looks promising!
 
Some RAW file types are supported on Amazon Photos? I should guess you are covered by one of the formats in the list below.

File Requirements for Amazon Photos - Amazon Customer Service

Amazon Photos supports most of the commonly used file types and formats for photos and videos.
www.amazon.co.uk

Supported by Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive​

Photo and Video Types
(This is not a definitive list)
  • Photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, most TIFF, HEIF, HEVC, HEIC, and some RAW format files.
  • Videos: MP4, QuickTime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash, HEIF, HEVC, and OGG.
RAW File Types
(This is not a definitive list)
  • Nikon (NEF files)
  • Canon (CR2 Files)
  • ARW (Sony)
  • CRW (Canon RAW CIFF image)
  • ORF (Olympus) files
  • DNG files

Personally, I use Backblaze for offsite backup as part of a 3-2-1 backup strategy. It covers more than just my photo image files (including my Lightroom Catalog which is just as important!) and it all happens automatically in the background without my having to remember to run backup scripts or copy files and folders manually.
 
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Musicman said:
Some RAW file types are supported on Amazon Photos? I should guess you are covered by one of the formats in the list below.

File Requirements for Amazon Photos - Amazon Customer Service

Amazon Photos supports most of the commonly used file types and formats for photos and videos.
www.amazon.co.uk

Supported by Amazon Photos and Amazon Drive​

Photo and Video Types
(This is not a definitive list)
  • Photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, most TIFF, HEIF, HEVC, HEIC, and some RAW format files.
  • Videos: MP4, QuickTime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash, HEIF, HEVC, and OGG.
RAW File Types
(This is not a definitive list)
  • Nikon (NEF files)
  • Canon (CR2 Files)
  • ARW (Sony)
  • CRW (Canon RAW CIFF image)
  • ORF (Olympus) files
  • DNG files

Personally, I use Backblaze for offsite backup as part of a 3-2-1 backup strategy. It covers more than just my photo image files (including my Lightroom Catalog which is just as important!) and it all happens automatically in the background without my having to remember to run backup scripts or copy files and folders manually.
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Thanks very much for posting that.
 
Just to add, I have ~65k RAW (mixed .CR2 & .CR3) and 65k JPG uploaded to Prime with no issue. The initial upload took some time but I just left it chugging away.
 
Wow some good tips there hadn't considered prime, as I do have that as part of my amazon sub.

Going for a delve, backblaze also looks good as an option.

Really can't understand dropbox removing the use of external drives.
 
I use Backblaze as my off-site/cloud backup option - the only (minor) issue I have is that recovery after a drive failure is a rather tedious process - you have a web interface to select files to recover, it creates a zip file with them in, then the restore app downloads that zip file and puts them back (including directory structure, etc.).
The problem is you are limited to ~30Gb for a zip file (the actual limit is larger, but over 30Gb it gets quite slow to create), so have to create a bunch of them, then download / extract them, and repeat until you have the whole set you want - for me, it was almost 1Tb after a SSD suddenly failed, and I realised I'd forgotten to do my local backup after a recent session of revisiting a range of older images - oops!

For sharing between devices I use Onedrive, as I have 1Tb with my Office 365 subscription.

The combination of the two works well, I find.
 
Onedrive does have that going for it and I like it too.

It's a contender for me. Easy access and just use it like a disc... I think.
 
Does amazon own copyright of images put on to their storage? For example, Facebook and Instagram have something similar to owning, partially owning the image uploaded?

Or am I being a conspiracy theorist?
 
1.2 Using and Controlling Your Files with the Services. You may use the Services only to store, retrieve, manage, organise, and access Your Files for personal, non-commercial purposes using the features and functionality we make available. You may not use the Services to store, transfer, or distribute content of or on behalf of third parties, to operate your own file storage application or service, to operate a photography business or other commercial service, or to resell any part of the Services. You have full control over Your Files and you are solely responsible for them, including for complying with all applicable privacy, copyright, import and export control laws and regulations and other laws, and with the terms of any licenses or agreements to which you are bound. You must ensure that Your Files have been lawfully acquired and are free from any malware, viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, worms, or other malicious or harmful code

Taken from: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201376540
 
I can't be doing with cloud storage, takes too long to upload things (even though I should be getting 100Mb upload speeds soon as we change to fibre to the premises). I have four hard drives on top of my working drive. One is in the PC case for quick backups, one is kept in the room but unplugged until used and two others are backed up to less often but are kept in a fire safe in the house. If all these backups get destroyed at once then I can assume I will have bigger problems than losing a few photos (ok, 10K plus photos).
 
Jungli said:
Does amazon own copyright of images put on to their storage? For example, Facebook and Instagram have something similar to owning, partially owning the image uploaded?

Or am I being a conspiracy theorist?
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You're being a conspiracy theorist :)
HTH

For further info - the paragraph oft quoted to 'prove' FB etc are sharing 'ownership' of your images is along the lines that 'by posting images here you give us the right to use those images to share with others, alter those images' etc.

Basically all the permission they need to show your images to anyone you have agreed to, including cropped versions of those images to fit their UI
 
Phil V said:
You're being a conspiracy theorist :)
HTH

For further info - the paragraph oft quoted to 'prove' FB etc are sharing 'ownership' of your images is along the lines that 'by posting images here you give us the right to use those images to share with others, alter those images' etc.

Basically all the permission they need to show your images to anyone you have agreed to, including cropped versions of those images to fit their UI
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You're right... and I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you pesky kids.
 
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