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olsondetours2000

olsondetours2000

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I've been into digital scrapbooking since 2006 and I've gotten to the point where I'm running out of storage space. How do you all keep your accumulation of digital scrapbooking supplies and photographs stored and safe?
 
I use external hard drives. I also got rid of a lot of "freebie" items I collected over the years that I have never and will never use.
 
I have an external hard drive. It is getting close to needing another one too. :stash

I have an Iomega
 
I was using an external but I got tired of it and asked my DH to set up a VPN on his desktop so I can get to it all over the network instead.
 
I use an external hard drive. And have a second one for backup. I want a third.
 
It's all on my hard drive and backed up to the cloud with backblaze. Am considering putting certain things into storage with amazon prime too, also wondering about using dvds. I had a really bad experience with my only attempt at using a ehd (failed within three months) yet my supplies and photos on old cd's (like 10 years old) and dvd's are still accessible.
 
First of all, I hope that you already have a back up of your DS supplies and your pics? I spilled water on my laptop soon after DD was born and I thought I'd lost everything. EVERYTHING. Cuz I'd never backed up. Thankfully a friend at DH's work in the IT dept found a case for my laptop's harddrive and we recovered almost everything. So now I have 3 EHDs here at home and I just started uploading pics to Amazon's Photo cloud. (I have unlimited storage as a Prime member. IDK what'll happen if we ever stop being prime, though, which was my one hesitancy to ULing there.) It would be nice to have a 4th EHD so that I can move one of my EHDs to my parents' house, where I keep full EHDs (that way if something happens to my EHDs here, I'll have backup in another location... kind of the reason you're supposed to back up to the cloud). I've been thinking about online storage for DS supplies but I use a laptop so having "the cloud" back up my stuff once a week on a set schedule just doesn't work for me.
 
I've been collecting digiscrap supplies since 2007 at least. Every few years I buy a bigger EHD. :) And I backup everything with Backblaze.
 
I've been collecting since 2008. I try to purge every six months. My current digi supplies are on my desktop hard drive, copies on my laptop and backed up to Carbonite. When I go to purge, the supplies I don't think I'll use or use again get moved to an external hard drive. If I haven't gone looking for them a year later, then they get deleted!!
 
I've been digi-scrapping since 2006 too and my solution to my ever growing stash is to keep buying bigger EHDs! Lol! Hard drives are so cheap these days that I don't think it's a big deal to spend $100 every other year or so for a new one.

I always have one main EHD so I can take my supplies to whatever computer I want to scrap on (desktop or laptop). I have an internal HD that I back up to at home and then I keep a third EHD at work and back up to it every Friday. that's my off site back up.
 
Way back when, I used to back up my month's purchases on a cd/then dvd and that helped me keep my purchases to 4GB a month. It wasn't money that got me as much as storage space. I gave that up in 2012 and switched to a 2T EHD. Then recently, I added a 3T EHD and made the 2T my back up one. I also have my supplies copied to a portable LaCie drive and it's backed up to Crashplan.

I have purged a couple of times with supplies and still find it hard to do. Oh, did I mention that I also have most of my zip files too...just in case. I have used those several times when somehow a folder went missing. (??? ran away from home?)
 
I have a 3T EHD that houses my supplies and photos. I back up using Backblaze.

I don't enjoy having my supplies and photos in separate locations. LOL
 
I purge every six months. Supplies I love and use often are on my hard drive. Supplies that I'm not sure about or have used a lot in the past, I move to my EHD and purge if I haven't looked at them in six months to a year.
 
cfile said:
I use external hard drives. I also got rid of a lot of "freebie" items I collected over the years that I have never and will never use.
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My "freebies" all got lost in the great crash of 2014 when my hard drive and my backup EHD crashed at exactly the same time. Thankfully, many of the stores where I had purchased things had plans where I could get some things I had purchased back, but I still lost a lot. And now I have discovered that some of the kits I recently purchased from Scrap Orchard are gone and I obviously can't get those back. What I have just started doing is saving everything to one EHD and then copying it to another EHD and both EHDs are set to be be backed up on Backblaze, but Backblaze says it will take at least a year to get it all backed up.
 
olsondetours2000 said:
My "freebies" all got lost in the great crash of 2014 when my hard drive and my backup EHD crashed at exactly the same time. Thankfully, many of the stores where I had purchased things had plans where I could get some things I had purchased back, but I still lost a lot. And now I have discovered that some of the kits I recently purchased from Scrap Orchard are gone and I obviously can't get those back. What I have just started doing is saving everything to one EHD and then copying it to another EHD and both EHDs are set to be be backed up on Backblaze, but Backblaze says it will take at least a year to get it all backed up.
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Once you get it backed up to Backblaze, you need to be sure to plug in your EHDs at least once every 30 days, or they will delete that data. (Unless their policy has changed over the last year or so -- one of the main reasons I switched to Crashplan.)
 
elseepe said:
Once you get it backed up to Backblaze, you need to be sure to plug in your EHDs at least once every 30 days, or they will delete that data. (Unless their policy has changed over the last year or so -- one of the main reasons I switched to Crashplan.)
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That's still the policy with Backblaze. I don't bother having them back up my EHDs. I have two of them. I purge ever so often.
 
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