{"id":910,"date":"2011-10-07T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redwireservices.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2014-05-02T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:31:31","slug":"photo-backup-for-professional-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redwireservices.com\/photo-backup-for-professional-photographers","title":{"rendered":"Photo Backup For Professional Photographers (And Serious Amateurs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our latest research project at Red Wire Services<\/a> involves backup solutions for professional photographers and advanced amateurs (videographers stay tuned). Our intent is to discover if the photography market is well served with reasonable backup solutions, and if not come up with our own. The hunch is that photographers are not well served as they have as more data than most small and even some medium sized businesses, but usually have small budgets.<\/p>\n

We’ve spoken to dozens of professionals in this space, and get just about as many opinions, methods, and pain points\u00a0regarding\u00a0backup and archiving of their precious photographs.\u00a0Some are content with somewhat limited photography sharing sites. Some are not\u00a0concerned\u00a0about data loss after delivery of photographs to their customer. Some wisely integrate backup and archiving in their workflow, incorporating multiple hard drives, computers, CD\/DVDs, and storage locations. \u00a0Just typing that, it sounds like a lot of work.<\/p>\n

Some have tried the photo sharing sites, or consumer\/small business focused backup services (such as Carbonite<\/a>\u00a0or Mozy<\/a>), only to find out it’s impossible to synchronize all of their data. Others may have found reasonable solutions, but only at an unreasonable cost when their archive reaches 500GB, a Terrabyte (TB), or even more (especially those archiving RAW format photos).<\/p>\n

During a conversation with one particularly astute photography professional<\/a>, I was introduced to the most popular online services for\u00a0photographers, especially those wishing to sell their photos online. \u00a0With that nudging, and some mention from other photographers, I decided to take a deeper look at what seems to be the most popular services (if you know of others we should look at, please leave a comment!).<\/p>\n

Here is the rundown of what I found, that may be useful for photographers:<\/p>\n