jago25_98

I had a fairly good backup system when I had a PC. I just backed up select things, usually photos, to an external drive. Ideally I would then put this in a fireproof safe. These days we have a plethora of cloud storage, 2 phones, a tablet, a laptop, a PC, then maybe even work stuff. How do you guys stay organised? Personally... When the cloud came about what I started to do was use Google Drive as a store for documents. I then started using Mega to backup photos from my phone. The easiest point from here to backup Gdrive & Mega would be to use btsync to duplicate those 2 stores... but in order to do that AFAIK I would have to bring it all to a local drive and then run btsync... but I don't have enough bandwidth and space to do this. I'm not quite sure where to go from here. The next problem I have is that I now have a few GB of photos but because they're remote and I don't have enough local storage I can't use something like Picasa to organize the files. If I go out and buy a bigger drive then I'm not sure where to host that - I travel a lot. Do other people generally just sync everything except bigger files? Is there a standard heirachy that people use? I've noticed that some companies use 01 Contracts 02 Human Resources 03 Places 04 People 05 etc But it's completely non standard and you can't use the keyboard to find the folder you're looking for anymore. Do you backup all the folders? Or do you leave some unbacked up, such as videos? If it's not backed up, do you mark it as such in the name? What do you sync to your phone? Or do you sync FROM your phone? Or do you backup from your phone to the cloud... or from your phone to your PC and then to the cloud. If you are a musician, how did you catagorise your sound samples? Did you put different file types together or not? If you are a photographer, how did you organise things? By date, by subject, by contract, by place? Or do you put everything in a sequence of sequential folders and use tagging? But if you do... how does that mesh with cloud storage? Is there a procedure that you've seen work particularly well and where can I read about it? It seems like a big subject

That's one OS I don't have regular access to. Windows, Linux, yes. That said, tell me what you're thinking as there might be a port you're not aware of

Any tips on how to backup Mega.co.nz to a btsync? Fortunately my files are quite small (photos typically 3mb each) but I don't have enough local storage to grab them all. There should be a way to script this but it's a bit beyond me any tips on what to search for much appreciated... mega scriptable command line: megatools.megous.com / https://github.com/megous/megatools ... also maybe I can do it partially with a GUI with btsync config set to not delete the remote store after I delet the local photo?