Flickr is a good online backup. Discuss......

trencheel303 said:
Yeah, and be aware that the hosting website can close your account for absolutely no reason at all - no, online photo albums are by no means a 'backup' at all.
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Surely if you're a Flickr Pro user paying £15 per annum they can't do that as your buying into the bandwidth of your image hosting & storage.
 
Graham00 said:
Surely if you're a Flickr Pro user paying £15 per annum they can't do that as your buying into the bandwidth of your image hosting & storage.
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nope..

Flickr said:
If your credit card is invalid for any reason, your Flickr pro account will revert to a free Flickr account and will be subject to the limitations of a free Flickr account; provided, however, that Flickr reserves the right to cancel your account entirely in such case, whereupon all the information and content contained within it will be deleted permanently. Flickr accepts no liability for information or content that is deleted due to an invalid credit card.
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Flickr said:
Flickr expressly reserves the right to immediately modify, delete content from, suspend or terminate your account and refuse current or future use of any Yahoo! service, including Flickr pro, if Flickr, in its sole discretion believes you have: (i) violated or tried to violate the rights of others; or (ii) acted inconsistently with the spirit or letter of the TOS, the Community Guidelines or these Additional Terms. In such event, your Flickr pro account may be suspended or cancelled immediately in our discretion, all the information and content contained within it deleted permanently and you will not be entitled to any refund of any of the amounts you've paid for such account. Flickr accepts no liability for information or content that is deleted.
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etc.
 
neil_g said:
even DVDs not left in the sun can de-laminate over time.. i wouldnt trust them over mechanical drives. especially concidering how little data can be stored compared to mechanical.

blu-ray on the other hand doesnt suffer from delaminating and has a much bigger capacity. however that technology still isnt cheap.
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Well I've never had a DVD de-laminate in over 10 years so I don't think I'll be losing any sleep over that - and Blu-ray is a relatively new technology and a bigger capacity simply means you can lose a lot more data in one go if just one of your discs go wrong - and the same argument applies to mechanical drives which DO go wrong and which I have had go wrong.

Luckily I don't backup onto them.
 
petersmart said:
Well I've never had a DVD de-laminate in over 10 years so I don't think I'll be losing any sleep over that - and Blu-ray is a relatively new technology and a bigger capacity simply means you can lose a lot more data in one go if just one of your discs go wrong - and the same argument applies to mechanical drives which DO go wrong and which I have had go wrong.

Luckily I don't backup onto them.
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ive never seen one delaminate as such but i have had 1 (a bridge too far no doubt) develop what looks like oil on water effect underneath the clearcoat layer and become unreadable. so im afraid it does happen..
 
Another vote for Carbonite here : http://www.carbonite.com/.

Once setup you can just forget it, can take a few days (weeks?) to make the initial backup after that it just trickles away in the background.
This is pure backup though, not archiving.

I also backup to external (raided) drives.
 
Basically multiple back ups on varying media in different locations is the only solution ;)
 
chrisgeary said:
10 years is good. But how much longer do you trust them? Do you plan to move your data onto fresh disks or other media? I'd be scared to trust critical data to one media.
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Well most of the data isn't critical and a lot of it is out of date anyway.

I occacsionally search for something i might need on them and, as I said, no problems.

I would certainly tust them far more than HDs with their inherent weaknesses - drop a DVD and you just pick it up - drop a HD...?
 
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