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[DanThePhotoMan]

Zenfolio has a great online service for photographers. I have used them for the past 3 years without one problem. Unlimited storage for $100 per year, plus many, many other features for photographers. I can't recommend them enough (and I don't have any stake in the company). http://www.zenfolio.com

[spinoza2]

I got one of the new Eye-Fi card over the holidays for my Leica and they're the real deal, very reliable and useful. It's amazing to have your images upload automatically to your computer or the cloud. Definitely worth the added cost over the non-WiFi versions.

[gidi]

Aperture has its own backup function: you define a vault on an external disk, and Aperture takes care of backing up your libraries to the disk. Note: only Managed Masters (i.e., those *copied* into the Aperture data base) are backed up.

Question: can you define a vault in the cloud?

G.

[MacTechAspen]

My wife's 500 GB of photos is a problem to back up. We used Amazon's cloud service for a time, and it worked great, except that here in Argentina the Internet is just a hair faster than dial up. This makes cloud services next to impossible.

We backed up a bunch of photos to a Blue Ray disk and moved them off site, but I can't get Blue Ray media here.

I have ended up doing it the old fashioned way. A hard drive stored at a friend's house (and one of theirs at ours).

The thought of that ever growing 500+ GB of photos being lost keeps me up at night, but there is only so much we can do.

If cloud storage was viable we would be all over it (again).

[MacTechAspen]

gidi, on 17 February 2011 - 08:52 AM, said:

Question: can you define a vault in the cloud?

Absolutely. As long as you are using an interface that has a mountable volume. If it can put a "disk" on your desktop you can define it as a vault.

[greyone]

Image upload to DropBox or MobileMe Gallery from iOS is crippled, allowing only one file per upload—but one can select multiple images in the iOS photo library and MMS or attach to email. Can anyone explain, theoretically or technically, why this is so? There is an an app—DropImage—that purports to upload multiple images to DropBox, but the user reviews are not exactly gushing with enthusiasm.

[tony_d]

One other thing about the Eye-Fi Pro X2 card, it supports ad hoc networks.
http://www.eye.fi/ho...atures/advanced
so you can shoot and upload straight to a laptop in the field. (Be really cool if Apple let us set up ad hoc networks on the iPad.)

[jpschneider]

Any other suggestions for putting an Aperture vault in the cloud? I considered Dropbox, but then there will also be a local copy of the vault taking up space on my hard drive, which I want to avoid. I'm also not sure how a cloud service would handle changes to the Aperture vault. For example, when I update the vault, would the entire multi-gb vault have to be uploaded again, or would the service be smart enough to only update the changed files within the vault?

[Eyeficard]

tony_d, on 17 February 2011 - 10:26 AM, said:

One other thing about the Eye-Fi Pro X2 card, it supports ad hoc networks.
http://www.eye.fi/ho...atures/advanced
so you can shoot and upload straight to a laptop in the field. (Be really cool if Apple let us set up ad hoc networks on the iPad.)

You may be interested in the Direct Mode feature that we announced and that will be released in the first half of 2011. It will be a free software update to all Eye-Fi X2 card users.

Randhir (Eye-Fi)

[VinceStross]

We use Google's Picasa service. It's completely free and easy. There is a client that can be downloaded to manage all of your images, it can even be used to edit the images. Additionally, when you sync a folder to the web, you can choose to have the originals uploaded. This is what we do, in order to create a secondary backup solution.

Plus this way it's easy to share our photos with others because each album can have it's own privacy settings. This service has been around for many years now.. can't believe it didn't make the list in the article. Flikr is crap.

[hughdro]

Microsoft SkyDrive offers 25 GB of free storage for photographs and other files. Unfortunately, sliverfast has to be installed, but it's free. Albums can be shared with a select group or publicly.

[Paul]

MobileMe not mentioned. Unfortunately it does not appear to be a viable option.

[what2be]

gidi, on 17 February 2011 - 08:52 AM, said:

Aperture has its own backup function: you define a vault on an external disk, and Aperture takes care of backing up your libraries to the disk. Note: only Managed Masters (i.e., those *copied* into the Aperture data base) are backed up.

Question: can you define a vault in the cloud?

G.

In Aperture, you CANNOT define a vault in the cloud, or on a network drive. Only locally connected drives are available to use with Aperture's vault feature.