Hi guys,

Any suggestions for remote big store backup service for my pics?
I've google drive and drobox but the space is not enough.

What about your experience?

thanks
w.

Think about Amazon Glacier if you don't access your backed up photos often.

if you're talking web resolution, there are numerous online sites like carbonite etc., however personally, with over 15TB of RAW images over the past 10 years, trying to use a cloud storage system is not feasible for me. First, the time to actually back that much stuff up is astronomical, second, a restore would take just as long.
There are numerous options, even including LTO tape which are more economical and which allow a fairly quick restore time versus cloud.

Amazon will let you ship drives to whichever datacenter you need for a quick initial upload.

Companies I've worked with deal in petabytes of data, and use this option in lieu of millions of dollars of local storage.

Backblaze & Dropbox are two wonderful services you're able to utilize.

Count me in with a vote for LTO tape for stable, reliable, offline storage.

In my (non photography) business we have almost a petabyte of online storage (~700TB if I recall).  We cycle through that in about a year of projects.  Every project, upon completion, goes to an offsite nearline storage as a staging area for offline backups.  The project is cleaned up and the files marshalled and readied for tape.  Two tape archives are created, one for in-office storage (for quick restoration if we need the old data) and another that goes into secure, climate controlled storage offsite.

Every few years we will bring entire projects back online to check data integrity and output to new tape media (usually we do this once the old media is 2 generations behind our current tape system.. we're on LTO 7 right now I believe).  This keeps everything current and working with (relatively) new tape drives.

There's also a daily offsite, but online, multi-tiered backup system.

For hobbyist and small-scale professional photographers I'm not sure that you need to go through *all* of that machinery.. but I would definitely recommend 3 things:

1) do hourly backups to local drives but not inside the same box (ie. an external drive of some sort).  There should be tons of software available to do this automatically without any user intervention
2) do regular offsite backups to physical media.  How regular depends on how much data you're willing to lose in exchange for the convenience of not having to do the backups and transport.  You can probably get away with a rotating set of hard drives that are stored in some other location (other office, safe deposit box, etc)
3) archive finished work to tape.  You can still keep it online for easy access but for peace of mind a tape in a safe deposit box or some sort of secure storage is best.  Just make sure to actually check the tapes from time to time and transfer them to new media.  There's no sense having a tape if you can't find a working drive.

How much time and money you want to spend on this is dependent on how likely you think you are to suffer a data loss and for what reason, balanced against how much damage would be done to your business in the event of a loss.

I've found that online services are problematic for a few reasons: 1) you don't really have control of your data, 2) transfer speeds can make backing up and restoring a horrendously slow process and 3) you need to make sure the service provider is going to stick around.