Best app to backup photos and videos?

[Asgard Device]

I'm looking for any suggestions for an application that will check a source and destination folder and update the destination.

Right now I 'm just dragging a few folders over to a USB drive every now and then and that's how I backup my photos and videos. I don't replace existing files and so it just copies the new files. This actually works, but I was just curious if there was a good app for this..

 

[notposting]

Dropbox or other similar services involving the "cloud" could work for you. Automatic, no real software to use (small client, just drag to the watched folder and it's automatic).

Welcome to AT.

 

[Asgard Device]

I'm contemplating forking out the extra money to get enough space with dropbox for this purpose. It has worked very well for me, although I havent used it for photos/video. I've been using it to store photos from my security system as a fail-safe incase the computer is stolen. I also use it to share files within the household, particularly with my wife.

I recently purchased a DSLR and would like to keep the raw files, but they do take up a lot of space once you allow them to accumilate.

 

[Binky]

Puresync free version

 

[Leros]

If you're going to start doing a lot of photography with a DSLR (and especially with RAW format), you're going to need a lot of space. Look at Carbonite or Crashplan. For 50-60 bucks a year, you get unlimited offiste backup for one computer.

 

[Gooberlx2]

If you're going to start doing a lot of photography with a DSLR (and especially with RAW format), you're going to need a lot of space. Look at Carbonite or Crashplan. For 50-60 bucks a year, you get unlimited offiste backup for one computer.

This. Crashplan also gives you the option of backing up to multiple destinations simultaneously, i.e. onsite external HDD + offsite friend...for free. The pay service comes with the cloud backup (which is worth it, imo).

 

[dawks]

This. Crashplan also gives you the option of backing up to multiple destinations simultaneously, i.e. onsite external HDD + offsite friend...for free. The pay service comes with the cloud backup (which is worth it, imo).

Crashplan FTW. You can install the client on multiple computers and back up to them, either locally or over the internet. On my home computer, I backup to my buddies server 300mi away, Free offsite backup.. I backup another server with a paid account to crashplans cloud servers ($44/yr unlimited) AND to another server on our network at a different building. Works great.

With the paid account you can set how often to backup and what to keep. Our server backs up every 15 minutes, so we have tons of version if we ever need it. You can even tell it to keep deleted files.

It does compression and data-de-duplication so I'm backing up 300gigs on our server, but its only using 150gigs of actual disk space.