Backing up while abroad

Dr Sanchez

Whats the best way to go about backing up videos and photos from a holiday trip? Im going across the world, and want to eb able to back everything up every week or so incase im robbed.lose my stuff or whatever.

Im thinking online - is there anywhere that uploads quickly where i can just dump the stuff to be uploaded?

Im going to take a few blank discs and copy stuff as i go along and sned it back home.

There the 2 best ideas ye?

Saint_Mel

Flickr.com or Pix.ie

AnCatDubh

Here's another option -

25GB Storage for free on Microsoft's Skydrive. Of course your locations must have darn fine broadband. Careful as there is a limit to the size of a single file - 50MB I think, which won't be a problem for your photos but I'm thinking your video could possibly/may be likely to get bigger than that.

DotOrg

i plan on doing something similar but i think my backup will be one of these:
http://go.iomega.com/en/products/external-hard-drive-portable/prestige-portable-series/prestige-compact/?partner=4725#overviewItem_tab
which i'll carry in a seperate bag and then also burn photos to DVD every week or two and then post 'em home

Slidinginfinity

AnCatDubh wrote: »

Here's another option -

25GB Storage for free on Microsoft's Skydrive. Of course your locations must have darn fine broadband. Careful as there is a limit to the size of a single file - 50MB I think, which won't be a problem for your photos but I'm thinking your video could possibly/may be likely to get bigger than that.

It says 25GB but it doesn't have a cap as yet really.
MS knows it are not concerned about fixing it. (I have a bit of an inside source on this one)

I have used for dumping everything off the camera while away from home.

sNarah

When I was travelling I used to keep online copies + every once in a while I would get the memory card copied onto CD in one of them 1-hour film yokes and I would them send to my mother who kept them all safe.

stunt_penguin

Another option could be something like carbonite- they take full backups of folders. There's another service I've used whose name escapes me. You could have a service like that upload and keep your entire docs folder as you go along.

Thecageyone

Interesting, we will be [hopefully] heading to the US in Oct for our daughter's surgery, will be there a month at least. I know while I'm there I'll take 1000's of photos as I've never been any further afield than London!

Plenty of memory cards id what I was thinking tbh.

SammyJ

Dropbox might also work nicely for you. It's free for 2 gb and it automatically syncs the data on all the comps it's installed on. Basically you can upload from your laptop and when someone turns your home computer on it will automatically sync the files. That way you have a local copy of them at home.

Visuelle

Personally I use an Archos which is very good but that won't be any help if anything is lost or stolen, I make sure this is always hidden away safely.

Kbeg3

I have an Epson P7000 which is handy for backing up memory cards while away

ljohnson

yeah the espon above is the best i know