Get Your Data in the Cloud Today

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Aug 242010
 

Let’s face it. We use Lightroom to keep track of our ever growing collection of images. We spend a great deal of time organizing and perfecting our images. If we are smart, we backup our work. If we are really smart our backup is offsite to guard against the worst.

Well, you can’t get more offsite that the cloud. But it can be quite confusing getting into a solid cloud storage solution. There are lots of avenues and products. All with different costs and complications. Don’t you just wish someone would just sit you down and explain it to you? Just show you how to get set up and start incorporating this cloud thing into your workflow? Your wish has been granted. Brandon Oelling and X-Equals have released a new eBook called Living in the Cloud—Offsite Storage for Photographers.

Brandon was kind enough to provide me with a copy for review. Here’s what I found. Living in the Cloud—Offsite Storage for Photographers delivers on its promise. Its pages are full of detailed screenshots so you can follow along as you are guided through setup, configuration, and deployment of your cloud based storage solution. I found it very easy to implement the process outlined in the book.

I was disappointed by the discussion of what the cost of this solution is. That section could use more detail and would benefit from a concrete example comparing the cloud solution to another backup method. A link is provided to an online cost calculator but that leaves the reader to discover the cost of cloud storage with nothing to compare it to.

Overall I would recommend this ebook to any professional or serious enthusiast who wants to learn how to set up a cloud based solution. If you’d like to see more before buying, X-Equals offers a free download of the first chapter. It’s definitely worth a look!

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Gene is an Adobe Community Professional and and Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop, and InDesign, and an avid Lightroom fan. He belongs to the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Gene also the Co-Founder, Manager and a frequent blogger for the Dallas Fort Worth Adobe User Group (DFWAUG).

In addition to running Lightroom Secrets, Gene also contributes to O'Reilly's media blog, moderates on the Adobe forums, and helps out on lightroomforums.net.

  • http://saitraining.co.uk Marek Mularczyk – Sai Training

    Hi Gene,

    This is a very interesting and very important topic. I meet so many photographers on my Lightroom courses that do not take serious backing up their files…

    Even with automatic backup feature in Lightroom, they usually do it on the same computer…. so if anything happens with the computer everything is gone…

    One thing though is, how would you deal if you wanted to back up all your files? What of you have 300GB of files? Storing them online, uploading them online(!) is a task on its own…

    Thanks for the post once again,

    Marek Mularczyk

  • http://lightroomsecrets.com Gene McCullagh

    Hi Marek!

    Yes. I find that backup is a topic acknowledged by many but practiced by few. At least few practice it well!

    If your upload bandwidth is small it can be quite a chore to get all this into the cloud. But that is still nothing compared with permanently losing an image. Once you get past the initial upload (which, by the way, can take WEEKS) the incremental backups are barely noticeable. Having everything in the cloud is a really nice feeling too!

    Of course, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t backup locally as well. A local backup will get you up and running a lot quicker. Then you can rely on the cloud backup for major catastrophes.

  • Rpodcr

    From what I glimpsed of the first chapter Jungle Disk is a integral part of the S3 ackup. After 2 years of using Jungle Disk I opted out due to lack of support, confusing upgrades and UI, and constant payment/billing issues. S3 itself is great, but Jungle Disk not so much.