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25 Oct 2009
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Online Storage for photos
Greeting All
Has anyone used any of the online storage websites to backup their digital photos, etc while travelling?
I've found this site
ADrive.com – 50GB of Free Online Storage & Backup
It has huge storage and free (at the moment anyway) and apart from the online advertising it seems like a good deal, or are there hidden drawbacks?
Any comments?
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Ian J
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26 Oct 2009
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Most of the popular sites like flickr, photobucket & smugmug offer larger storage for a fee. If this was your only back-up, I would go with a trusted site that has been around for a while, than an unknown.
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26 Oct 2009
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I was using the free Photobucket for years, but during this recent trip I found the amount of bandwidth used began to be excessive. By this I mean, my photos are linked to my blog, so the more people that looked, the more I used. I just recently paid for the Pro version and get pretty much unlimited BW, plus no more ads.
If you just want them for storage, I highly reccomend them, but you may need to check into the maximum file size they will accept in free mode
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TS
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27 Oct 2009
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Thanks for the info,
What I had in mind was instead of finding a place to copy photos onto a CD/DVD and then posting them home during a trip was to copy them onto an online storage service and then get someone at home to download them so they wouldn't need to stay on the server for long.
BBeast What size storage does Flikr offer? The 50Gb that Adrive offer is more than I would normally need.
Strom sounds like a good trip I've been reading your blog
Thanks All
Ian J
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30 Oct 2009
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At home, I use Dropbox https://www.getdropbox.com/
The free storage is "only" 2GB. But if you have the client set up on your (or a friend's) computer at home, it will automatically store those to your hard drive. Once the files are moved out of that folder, they are deleted from the service, and you have your full 2GB available again.
Never tried to use it on the road though...
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31 Oct 2009
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I've been with Adrive for a while and never had a problem, in the past I've used it to transfer photos and videos home, by doing just what you say, uploading and then getting someone (my mum) at the other end to download.
There's always that nagging doubt that they might disappear for ever so I make sure my mum knows I'm uploading, usually by Skyping her while I'm doing it, and I also don't delete them from my hard-drive till I know she's got them all.
Mind you I've just picked up some 16gb SDHC cards for €20 each, so that way I can back up onto those too. I figure the more copies floating around the better.
I've been reading about yet another standard for SD cards, SDXC, which means memory cards of up to 2 terrabytes! Pretty soon that's got to be the way to go (until you lose the card of course).
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