Lovely to have Leigh back, both of you make a great team on camera, and clearly off camera too looking after one another. Heal well Leigh, don't rush it.
Amazing to see you Leigh, great to see you up and on your feet again. Raymond has been and still is a star …. Sending positive thoughts from me here in the UK Nigel.
I understand what spinal surgery is all about since my wife fell off a horse and ended up with compression of two vertebrae. It plagued her all her life. So, be careful and follow all the advice the doctors are offering. Raymond is an integral part of your team and I'm sure is part of all you do. Glad to see you back!
Having watched my son recover from a major spinal trauma. About 2 1/2 years ago, I can totally relate he is now fully recovered and it does take time. Just take your time. Listen to the medical experts is what I say. But in that time he developed a love for Photography as he couldn't do much anything physical, but we got him a small mirrorless camera and you should see his photos now he's got his own Instagram. If we take our time in recovery we get there it's when you rush the recovery that's when problems start to occur. I'm glad you're back on deck and I enjoy your videos as they are generally balanced, and you guys don't shout. To ever RUclipsr out there who shouts when they do their videos, please stop it. We are sitting 3 inches from a screen we do not need to be shouted at thank you. And I enjoy this video. In terms of the new Lumix camera, I'm not a fan of Panasonic and while it's a great great camera I'm not gonna swap systems because of one camera. I think this is probably a great camera for people who are new to the camera space and are looking for a really fantastic camera or looking to upgrade their Panasonic but these days once you're invested in a system it is really hard to swap and I don't encourage people to swap systems as you then have to learn a whole new system to get the same quality of photos. Yes instantaneously there is a platter of features that that will benefit you when shooting video and Photography with a new camera, but the systems thing is interesting because we work by systems in our brain. Brain is wide after a while to work with certain systems and when you change camera systems it is really difficult to produce the same quality of work. I often see people leaving a certain system and then six months later, they saying I'm coming back. My honest advice is once you've invested in a system and your entrenched in that stay in it, and learn to use the gear that you have not keep upgrading to different manufacturers because they come out with a new camera. Yes, I teach photography, I don't have a fancy RUclips channel yet, but I do teach photography in my community.
I could care less about the content of this video. I'm So GLAD Leigh is back!!!!!! Quick recovery and take it easy. Let your body guide the rhythm of the recovery, not your will. Raymond, thank you for changing your look and approach when Leigh was away. You two are great. Keep up the great work. Much love from Tucson, AZ.
Superb video and so good to see Leigh back! I'm only an amateur but here's what I now do after a terrible experience with *Carbonite : 1) Download files from memory card to Windows PC. Set aside the memory card until the next steps are complete 2) The PC will automatically sync to Dropbox. So almost instantly I now have 3 copies of the original camera files. 3) All photos that get edited are saved as Hi-Res JPEG on Windows PC and Dropbox and also to an external My Book HDD. So now that's 5 RAW or Hi-Res edits in three locations! 4) Periodically, I mirror copy my local HDD to another My Book HDD which I bring in from an outside site just to do the copying. (I have to hope my house does not burn down or that I get burgled during these days!) 5) Periodically also, I delete all originals that neither got edited nor marked as 1 star ( a keeper but not edited for current use). 6) Periodically also, I copy the retained originals of edits to the local HDD and the offsite HDD and when my PC hard drive is getting full, I finally delete the originals and oldest Hi-Res JPEGs of the edited images. I appreciate that this wouldn't work for a busy professional. But it does mean that I have plenty of redundancy in my system. I still worry that my oldest photos are only backed up to two physical HDDs. Maybe I should pay to keep more of my best older photos on Dropbox? I structure my archives by year then by folder for each day's photos with a naming convention of for example '20230211 London Street Portraits' so they will list in date order but with some indication of their content should I wish to search in future. Posting my best pictures regularly to 500px also acts as a visual chronological index. *For years I relied on Carbonite to back up photos and documents until one day I accidently deleted some documents on my PC but then I noticed the Carbonite sync had stopped a week previously!! I contacted Carbonite who told me "Yea. Sorry about that. We had a service problem. We emailed you." I checked and they didn't email me so I lost a week''s work!! So after that I adopted my complex, very cautious process described above.
Nice to see your return Leigh and even more, your return to good health! And yes, Raymond should be in front of the camera more often. Together your an awesome dynamo!!! Love both your energy and teaching styles.
Leigh, glad to see you back ! Take it slow, easy and as directed. From your and Raymond's work in the past I look forward to your return to that level. Your video style has been missed.
Glad to see that you're getting better, Leigh! I've liked "Raymond the Intern" ever since we first met him. I'm glad to see that he got promoted! Happy to see you on camera more, Raymond.
Brilliant to see you back. Think you and Raymond are incredible. Best wishes for your continued recovery Leigh….you’ll both need a nice vacation after this.
How fantastic to see you back on your feet, Leigh. It's been great to see Raymond. He's brilliant, and we really want to keep seeing him. Please don't disappear. We've all missed you, Leigh. Welcome back. Remember, slowly does it. ❤️
Great to see you 'back'! Spinal surgery is life-changing (personal experience), so I'm glad that it is working out for you - and yes, let's keep Raymond on screen too! take care and I wish you a full and swift recovery.
Stay strong! Have two blown discs L4-L5 and L5-S1. They have been screwed up for about 15 years now. For me, the pain was horrible for several years, mostly nerve pain in my legs… sciatica is the worst thing ever. Couldn’t afford surgery, so I never got it done. Luckily, the pain eventually passed without surgery and I’m mostly back to normal. I know how bad it can be, but take it from me, you can recover and this will pass. Have a quick and successful recovery, don’t push too hard. Slow and steady.
A really interesting video, thanks for this. Also good to see Leigh is "vertical" again. Just remember Leigh, be kind to yourself don't rush the recovery, much as you'll want to. Remember, progress won't be linear, just keep an eye on the "direction of travel"
So happy to see you back, Leigh, and I concur with so many other comments that you both make a great team. I've just started using my new Sonly Alpha 7 IV and I have to remind myself that the images are quite larger than my old Alpha 57's. For a long time, I've use my iCloud Drive with additional purchased storage. I'm also getting rather ruthless is what I consider worth saving. But I am taking nowhere near as many photos as a full time photographer. I'm still basically a happy amateur hobbyist. My Photos library in is still measured in the low 10s of thousands (I want to say about 33,000). A lot of that, now that I'm retired and have time to go back through them, will be deleted. Raymond, you mentioned AI that Amazon is using to help categorize photos. This is something I may need, because I can't see anyone curating my photos but me. Can't think of how many of my Mom's and Dad's photos my brother and I ditched simply because we knew so little about the context or subject. So, being able to cull my collection down to something that contains history and context that will be meaningful to my adult children needs to be a priority.
I'm checking in after a long absence and was unaware that Leigh was having some health issues. To Leigh: my wishes for a prompt and full recovery. To Raymond: great job looking after Leigh. I wish you both the best. About the video: this comes at a good time for me as I'm one of those who has been thinking about a backup system but can't figure out the best way to go. I was unaware Amazon had a backup plan, but will look into it. Thanks for the video.
@@LeighAndRaymond Leigh, sounds like a plan. Having been through PT a couple times (torn rotator cuff, carpal tunnel) I can say doing what your therapist says, especially on the at home / between visits exercises, stretches and doing them as they suggest not more or less is the key. My best friend's daughter is a therapist and personal coach and that is what she told me. I did it and not once did my therapist have to go "Drill Sargent" on me. If anything hurts more than it should or you're having trouble with something please do tell your PT person. Again, I wish you all the best. Not being able to get out and do stuff you want to do just wears on a person.
Raymond, thank you for this video, it’s nice to see you guys back together again! One little detail I would like to correct about the storage needs; there is no such thing left in this world as “good intention people,” but it is important to protect because of the “bad intentions people”! I admire you guys for all the knowledge you have and for the unselfish sharing of it, I’ll pray for Leigh’s continuing recovery :)
Had my 1st L5-S1 surgery 8 years ago - I'm recovering slowly with exercises and rehabilitation in order to avoid a second invasive procedure on L4-L5... Your issue sounds worse from what I hear, Leigh, but I know some of this pain and fear. I had to end my capoeira and BJJ life adventure, now my long bike rides are ceased too... I learned much from you so I really keep my fingers for you! Good ostheopathy doctor and exercises on daily basis can help unbelievably!
You're comment about Lightroom (LR) catalogs is so right! I use them, but if LR went away, I am still well organized. The underlying file system makes sense, so you can quickly get back to business. Having your content organized properly within the file system is essential to any backup/recovery system
Yay! Welcome back Leigh. You were missed. Love your insight and your approach. Please keep Raymond in front of the camera. His video on achieving the film look was awesome and a current fav of mine. Thanks to both of you for all you do for the photographic community! Here's to a speedy and full recovery
It's great to see you back on camera Leigh! Thank you for this great video on this important topic. I immediately started backing up my photos in the Amazon Photo Cloud. Just stupid that a reasonable folder structure can not be created there. But thanks again and have a good one.
Thank you for this, your storage needs are far beyond mine. You both do a great job at this, it's nice that Leigh is back but I'll happily watch Raymond as well.
Raymond is awesome, I love you Leigh but there si something really appealing to Raymonds no nonsense approach, you are both very knowledgeable and enjoy seeing both of you!
So lovely to see you Leigh! It's sounds as if it's going to be a long road to full recovery, but..baby steps. You're heading in the right direction, that's the main thing! Lots of love xx
As far as I know, Time Machine is not a cold storage since it uses a database scheme to maintain the chronology. If the database is corrupted, the whole history of the backup is corrupted too. Best would have been a Synology for hot storage + a Synology for cold storage (via HyperBackup) and a Synology C2 external account for an off site cold storage. Since Synology share points can be secured by a certificate, the data is cryped. So there is very unlikely that an attack can access the second synology. Like C2, the backup sessions are fully isolated one from another and certificate crypted. The problem with an alignement of WD disks is the reliability (and availability) of the power supply and the drives themselves.
Synology drives are fantastic! I'm a graphic artist with a printing company. Our files can huge since we print large format. I run two synology drives for a total of 40TB. Been using them since 2015 and I have only had one drive failure
Great to see Leigh back on her feet. Leigh suiting up reminded me of Rambo gearing up. All that was missing was sheathing the big hunting knife. Regarding the video, love this top on backup and the equipment used. Really appreciate it.
Great to see Leigh up and about. I've had spinal surgery before and its no fun. But it beats being bedridden, As for backup, I have a MacBook and use time machine. I also use chronosync and Backblaze for cloud backup. note Backblaze will only keep 30 days of backups unless you want to pay more. I have a Synology DS1522+ 32TB NAS and and a g-tech 12TB single direct connect drive. I use a daily/weekly/monthly strategy. time machine goes to its own volume on the NAS daily. Chronosync does weekly backups to its own NAS volume and monthly backups to the g-tech.
Lovely to see you back, Leigh. I had major back surgery in 2009….Not an easy recovery, but well worth it! I also enjoyed the video itself! Storage improvements are definitely needed in my household! This will help!
Work has prevented me from watching this until today. So good to see you back Leigh. Hope the recovery keeps going well. And nice one Raymond, you've been doing a great job. Storage is always difficult. Off site is the biggest problem for me. Looking forward to the S5 mk2 review. Just had one arrive the other day and will be getting out with it properly next week. A few thoughts and tips from longer term use may be handy.
First, it's so good to see Leigh recovering well. Second, it looks like we use very similar storage methods. All my raws are backed up on WD external drives, organized by year, camera, month. Unfortunately, I have not made a habit of backing up my processed images regularly, which has resulted in the potential loss of three years of processed images and incidental video. I am remedying this going forward.
Tears of joy flowing, so happy to see you again and know you still have a way to go. Raymond has been awesome and we look forward in having you both here. Continue to get well and we pray 🙏 you'll be back to 100% soon. I use two WD My Books to store images, one is a primary and the other is a backup. I started saving all my images but recently started saving just the keepers and deleting the others.
Go Leigh!!! Stay 💪 strong!!!! You guys are great. Healing vibes! Glad to hear Raymond will accompany you in upcoming videos. This channel is awesome! Thanks you both! I have a 4 drive synology NAS. Need to find a cloud backup for it.
As an amateur i just keep the SD cards from important trips/holidays/events in an container for sometime until i have edited the shots/videos into a final presentation then back up on external drives . As the SD cards are now relatively cheap i will keep the used ones as back up .My digital pics from 2000 & scanned photos from our family collection , 1930 on to now , are on CDs .But from now on the external ssd drives are ok plus i have 22,000 pics on Google Photos & Drive. That means 3 copies. I am 76 . I still use Picasa as the library viewer.
So great to see you back on the road back to recovery. And very much props to Raymond, I've been in his place, with young kids and that was enough without needing to run a business and RUclips chanel. Take it steady both. Really great advice on here too! Like the structure. You could also add a readme file or simila to the month folders to keep short notes.
I'm soo happy you are back. I'm looking forward to all the new content. I'm very partial to SSD G Drives. Perhaps you could do a piece on speedlight and softbox options for mirrorless cameras
Great to see you back, Leigh! And great video, Raymond, taking what is often regarded as a tedious subject, and presenting it in a form that made me think about my process (or lack of it).
Great to see you up and around and yes Raymond should get more on-air time. I am one of the many ,as an enthusiast, never worried about backups. I wouldn’t miss most of my photos, if I lost them. I usually print the ones I like and the rest just sit on my hard drive. However, now that I am trying to record all the old family pixs, i have to consider backing up my work. Thank you for sharing your pricedures.
Excellent Video!! I really like that both Raymond & Leigh made the video collaboratively, they obviously make a great team. Leigh, very happy to see you standing upright!! ( I suffer from Sciatica so I know the pain, can you please mention the brand of the belt you are wearing, I think it might help!) and Raymond, great presentation!! I enjoy how you speak and how you explain things in a way that is easy to understand. Now on to my storage process, I keep my original photos & videos on fast SSD drives by year, by month, by camera, and by topic. I have created an LR catalogue with the same design, but I only include files I want to work with (I exclude out of focus and other files). MY LR files are stored on a local NAS (QNAP) with the same structure as the original files. What I need now is a Cloud Backup Solution, BackBlaze is mentioned in the comments - I need to research that.
Hello, nice to see you again. Take care and the time you need to fully heal.
Lovely to have Leigh back, both of you make a great team on camera, and clearly off camera too looking after one another. Heal well Leigh, don't rush it.
Amazing to see you Leigh, great to see you up and on your feet again. Raymond has been and still is a star ….
Sending positive thoughts from me here in the UK
Nigel.
SO good to see you back Leigh. Wishing you a full recovery.
I understand what spinal surgery is all about since my wife fell off a horse and ended up with compression of two vertebrae. It plagued her all her life. So, be careful and follow all the advice the doctors are offering. Raymond is an integral part of your team and I'm sure is part of all you do. Glad to see you back!
Having watched my son recover from a major spinal trauma. About 2 1/2 years ago, I can totally relate he is now fully recovered and it does take time. Just take your time. Listen to the medical experts is what I say. But in that time he developed a love for Photography as he couldn't do much anything physical, but we got him a small mirrorless camera and you should see his photos now he's got his own Instagram. If we take our time in recovery we get there it's when you rush the recovery that's when problems start to occur. I'm glad you're back on deck and I enjoy your videos as they are generally balanced, and you guys don't shout. To ever RUclipsr out there who shouts when they do their videos, please stop it. We are sitting 3 inches from a screen we do not need to be shouted at thank you. And I enjoy this video. In terms of the new Lumix camera, I'm not a fan of Panasonic and while it's a great great camera I'm not gonna swap systems because of one camera. I think this is probably a great camera for people who are new to the camera space and are looking for a really fantastic camera or looking to upgrade their Panasonic but these days once you're invested in a system it is really hard to swap and I don't encourage people to swap systems as you then have to learn a whole new system to get the same quality of photos. Yes instantaneously there is a platter of features that that will benefit you when shooting video and Photography with a new camera, but the systems thing is interesting because we work by systems in our brain. Brain is wide after a while to work with certain systems and when you change camera systems it is really difficult to produce the same quality of work. I often see people leaving a certain system and then six months later, they saying I'm coming back. My honest advice is once you've invested in a system and your entrenched in that stay in it, and learn to use the gear that you have not keep upgrading to different manufacturers because they come out with a new camera. Yes, I teach photography, I don't have a fancy RUclips channel yet, but I do teach photography in my community.
I could care less about the content of this video. I'm So GLAD Leigh is back!!!!!! Quick recovery and take it easy. Let your body guide the rhythm of the recovery, not your will. Raymond, thank you for changing your look and approach when Leigh was away. You two are great. Keep up the great work. Much love from Tucson, AZ.
Superb video and so good to see Leigh back!
I'm only an amateur but here's what I now do after a terrible experience with *Carbonite :
1) Download files from memory card to Windows PC. Set aside the memory card until the next steps are complete
2) The PC will automatically sync to Dropbox. So almost instantly I now have 3 copies of the original camera files.
3) All photos that get edited are saved as Hi-Res JPEG on Windows PC and Dropbox and also to an external My Book HDD. So now that's 5 RAW or Hi-Res edits in three locations!
4) Periodically, I mirror copy my local HDD to another My Book HDD which I bring in from an outside site just to do the copying. (I have to hope my house does not burn down or that I get burgled during these days!)
5) Periodically also, I delete all originals that neither got edited nor marked as 1 star ( a keeper but not edited for current use).
6) Periodically also, I copy the retained originals of edits to the local HDD and the offsite HDD and when my PC hard drive is getting full, I finally delete the originals and oldest Hi-Res JPEGs of the edited images.
I appreciate that this wouldn't work for a busy professional. But it does mean that I have plenty of redundancy in my system. I still worry that my oldest photos are only backed up to two physical HDDs. Maybe I should pay to keep more of my best older photos on Dropbox?
I structure my archives by year then by folder for each day's photos with a naming convention of for example '20230211 London Street Portraits' so they will list in date order but with some indication of their content should I wish to search in future. Posting my best pictures regularly to 500px also acts as a visual chronological index.
*For years I relied on Carbonite to back up photos and documents until one day I accidently deleted some documents on my PC but then I noticed the Carbonite sync had stopped a week previously!! I contacted Carbonite who told me "Yea. Sorry about that. We had a service problem. We emailed you." I checked and they didn't email me so I lost a week''s work!! So after that I adopted my complex, very cautious process described above.
Welcome back Leigh and wish well with your recovery. God is good.
Welcome back Leigh! I've been watching your videos for almost 10 years.
Nice to see your return Leigh and even more, your return to good health! And yes, Raymond should be in front of the camera more often. Together your an awesome dynamo!!! Love both your energy and teaching styles.
Welcome back Leigh,great to see you in action again. Have enjoyed Raymonds videos, words of wisdom & advice.
Welcome back Leigh!
Raymond, you’re awesome. Keep sharing your unique perspective.
Thanks for the food for thought on storage. Much appreciated.
glad to see you back Leigh, hope your recovery is a speedy one, don't push yourself too much, take your time, but glad to see you back again
Welcome back Leigh. Nice to see you back with a smile...
Leigh, glad to see you back ! Take it slow, easy and as directed. From your and Raymond's work in the past I look forward to your return to that level. Your video style has been missed.
Glad to see that you're getting better, Leigh! I've liked "Raymond the Intern" ever since we first met him. I'm glad to see that he got promoted! Happy to see you on camera more, Raymond.
Brilliant to see you back. Think you and Raymond are incredible. Best wishes for your continued recovery Leigh….you’ll both need a nice vacation after this.
Glad you're feeling better; praying for full and healthy recovery.
I miss you and glad you are back. Take it easy and slow good healing and recovery. Stay safe!❤
How fantastic to see you back on your feet, Leigh. It's been great to see Raymond. He's brilliant, and we really want to keep seeing him. Please don't disappear. We've all missed you, Leigh. Welcome back. Remember, slowly does it. ❤️
Hi Leigh, so glad to see you again! Hoping your recovery is super smoot. Raymond is awesome, he's a real pro!
Welcome back Leigh!!!
Love your Chanel Raymond & Leigh.
Great to see you 'back'! Spinal surgery is life-changing (personal experience), so I'm glad that it is working out for you - and yes, let's keep Raymond on screen too!
take care and I wish you a full and swift recovery.
Great to see you back Leigh, Raymond did a great job..but he missed you too. ❤
Stay strong! Have two blown discs L4-L5 and L5-S1. They have been screwed up for about 15 years now. For me, the pain was horrible for several years, mostly nerve pain in my legs… sciatica is the worst thing ever. Couldn’t afford surgery, so I never got it done. Luckily, the pain eventually passed without surgery and I’m mostly back to normal. I know how bad it can be, but take it from me, you can recover and this will pass. Have a quick and successful recovery, don’t push too hard. Slow and steady.
Good to see you Leigh, looking great! Stay strong!😎
Good that you are home. Good that your operation was successful. Easy recovery.
Glad to see you’re on the path forward, while backing up. Take care.
It's great to see you again !! , wishing you a speedy recovery .
A really interesting video, thanks for this. Also good to see Leigh is "vertical" again. Just remember Leigh, be kind to yourself don't rush the recovery, much as you'll want to. Remember, progress won't be linear, just keep an eye on the "direction of travel"
So happy to see you back, Leigh, and I concur with so many other comments that you both make a great team. I've just started using my new Sonly Alpha 7 IV and I have to remind myself that the images are quite larger than my old Alpha 57's. For a long time, I've use my iCloud Drive with additional purchased storage. I'm also getting rather ruthless is what I consider worth saving. But I am taking nowhere near as many photos as a full time photographer. I'm still basically a happy amateur hobbyist. My Photos library in is still measured in the low 10s of thousands (I want to say about 33,000). A lot of that, now that I'm retired and have time to go back through them, will be deleted. Raymond, you mentioned AI that Amazon is using to help categorize photos. This is something I may need, because I can't see anyone curating my photos but me. Can't think of how many of my Mom's and Dad's photos my brother and I ditched simply because we knew so little about the context or subject. So, being able to cull my collection down to something that contains history and context that will be meaningful to my adult children needs to be a priority.
Missed you girl. Happy to see Raymond is doing more. Didn't know you had surgery. Blessings for you.
Glad to see you back. I hope your recovery goes well. Listen to the doctors. Yes to more Raymond.
You are both good. You make a good team. A nice balance. Glad you are recovering and really nice to see you again.
Welcome back Leigh! You looking great 👍
I'm checking in after a long absence and was unaware that Leigh was having some health issues. To Leigh: my wishes for a prompt and full recovery. To Raymond: great job looking after Leigh. I wish you both the best. About the video: this comes at a good time for me as I'm one of those who has been thinking about a backup system but can't figure out the best way to go. I was unaware Amazon had a backup plan, but will look into it. Thanks for the video.
Aww, welcome back glad the surgery was successful! Wishing you a great recovery 🤗
Great to see you back. Hope your recovery is going well. And an excellent update on backup and storage. Cheers for Raymond.
woohoo!! Glad you're on the road to recovery. Take care of yourself, do what the PT folks tell you to do and hope you have a full recovery.
I won’t even get to PT for at least another 4 weeks! The doc is having me take it VERY slow and I’m totally on board. :)
@@LeighAndRaymond Leigh, sounds like a plan. Having been through PT a couple times (torn rotator cuff, carpal tunnel) I can say doing what your therapist says, especially on the at home / between visits exercises, stretches and doing them as they suggest not more or less is the key. My best friend's daughter is a therapist and personal coach and that is what she told me. I did it and not once did my therapist have to go "Drill Sargent" on me. If anything hurts more than it should or you're having trouble with something please do tell your PT person. Again, I wish you all the best. Not being able to get out and do stuff you want to do just wears on a person.
Raymond, thank you for this video, it’s nice to see you guys back together again! One little detail I would like to correct about the storage needs; there is no such thing left in this world as “good intention people,” but it is important to protect because of the “bad intentions people”! I admire you guys for all the knowledge you have and for the unselfish sharing of it, I’ll pray for Leigh’s continuing recovery :)
Had my 1st L5-S1 surgery 8 years ago - I'm recovering slowly with exercises and rehabilitation in order to avoid a second invasive procedure on L4-L5... Your issue sounds worse from what I hear, Leigh, but I know some of this pain and fear. I had to end my capoeira and BJJ life adventure, now my long bike rides are ceased too...
I learned much from you so I really keep my fingers for you!
Good ostheopathy doctor and exercises on daily basis can help unbelievably!
👏👏❤️ to both of you. Well done.
Onwards and progressively upwards, Leigh
Welcome back! A month being immobilized will take time to rehabilitate for sure. And no question Raymond is fantastic on camera.
Yeah! Welcome back! Glad to know you are on the road to recovery. God bless!
Welcome back, Leigh. You were missed.
You're comment about Lightroom (LR) catalogs is so right! I use them, but if LR went away, I am still well organized. The underlying file system makes sense, so you can quickly get back to business. Having your content organized properly within the file system is essential to any backup/recovery system
This is without a shadow of a doubt the best news of the day. Welcome back Leigh. Good for both of you - and all of us.
Snappy, it is so good to have you back. We have all been missing you. Glad to hear that you are on the mend. Cheers hooray!!
Yay! Welcome back Leigh. You were missed. Love your insight and your approach. Please keep Raymond in front of the camera. His video on achieving the film look was awesome and a current fav of mine. Thanks to both of you for all you do for the photographic community! Here's to a speedy and full recovery
It's great to see you back on camera Leigh! Thank you for this great video on this important topic. I immediately started backing up my photos in the Amazon Photo Cloud. Just stupid that a reasonable folder structure can not be created there. But thanks again and have a good one.
Both of you are lucky to have each other. Glad you're back Leigh.
Great to see you back Leigh, but take care and hope your recovery accelerates
Welcome back ☺️
Thank you for this, your storage needs are far beyond mine. You both do a great job at this, it's nice that Leigh is back but I'll happily watch Raymond as well.
Raymond is awesome, I love you Leigh but there si something really appealing to Raymonds no nonsense approach, you are both very knowledgeable and enjoy seeing both of you!
Wow so happy to see you are vertical!!! Glad your surgery went well!!! This was a great video!!!👍👍👍
Glad you're back. You look fantastic.
So lovely to see you Leigh! It's sounds as if it's going to be a long road to full recovery, but..baby steps. You're heading in the right direction, that's the main thing! Lots of love xx
Its great to have you back!!
As far as I know, Time Machine is not a cold storage since it uses a database scheme to maintain the chronology. If the database is corrupted, the whole history of the backup is corrupted too. Best would have been a Synology for hot storage + a Synology for cold storage (via HyperBackup) and a Synology C2 external account for an off site cold storage. Since Synology share points can be secured by a certificate, the data is cryped. So there is very unlikely that an attack can access the second synology. Like C2, the backup sessions are fully isolated one from another and certificate crypted. The problem with an alignement of WD disks is the reliability (and availability) of the power supply and the drives themselves.
Synology drives are fantastic! I'm a graphic artist with a printing company. Our files can huge since we print large format. I run two synology drives for a total of 40TB. Been using them since 2015 and I have only had one drive failure
Great to see Leigh back on her feet. Leigh suiting up reminded me of Rambo gearing up. All that was missing was sheathing the big hunting knife.
Regarding the video, love this top on backup and the equipment used. Really appreciate it.
Awesome to see you Leigh!
Hey Leigh so good to see you back, looking forward to many more Leigh videos(no disrespect Raymond)
Heal well, don't rush it, Raymond has been great, honestly!
Great to see you back on your feet Leigh... and good luck for the continued recovery... Raymond doing a great job also :)
Welcome back. Hope you are feeling Better.
Glad to see you, again! Get better soon!😊
Missed you! Welcome back!!!! 🎉🎉 Raymond was amazing while you were recovering! 👏👏👏
Leigh I'm glad you're back! No pun intended 😉 ☺️
Great to see Leigh up and about. I've had spinal surgery before and its no fun. But it beats being bedridden, As for backup, I have a MacBook and use time machine. I also use chronosync and Backblaze for cloud backup. note Backblaze will only keep 30 days of backups unless you want to pay more. I have a Synology DS1522+ 32TB NAS and and a g-tech 12TB single direct connect drive. I use a daily/weekly/monthly strategy. time machine goes to its own volume on the NAS daily. Chronosync does weekly backups to its own NAS volume and monthly backups to the g-tech.
Way to go princess Leigh is Back!!!
Lovely to see you back, Leigh. I had major back surgery in 2009….Not an easy recovery, but well worth it! I also enjoyed the video itself! Storage improvements are definitely needed in my household! This will help!
Work has prevented me from watching this until today. So good to see you back Leigh. Hope the recovery keeps going well. And nice one Raymond, you've been doing a great job.
Storage is always difficult. Off site is the biggest problem for me.
Looking forward to the S5 mk2 review. Just had one arrive the other day and will be getting out with it properly next week. A few thoughts and tips from longer term use may be handy.
Glad you are back, just joined your channel yesterday and saddened to hear you had soe health issues. Praying for both of you
First, it's so good to see Leigh recovering well.
Second, it looks like we use very similar storage methods. All my raws are backed up on WD external drives, organized by year, camera, month. Unfortunately, I have not made a habit of backing up my processed images regularly, which has resulted in the potential loss of three years of processed images and incidental video. I am remedying this going forward.
Great to see you back and on your feet Leigh! Hoping for a speedy and full recovery! And yes, more Raymond in front of the camera is most welcome!
It’s great to have you back Leigh. I hope you have a full recovery very soon!
Great to see you back! And “Intern Raymond” has done an outstanding job. 👍
Welcome back! Continuing to pray for you and Raymond.
Welcome back Leigh!!!
Tears of joy flowing, so happy to see you again and know you still have a way to go. Raymond has been awesome and we look forward in having you both here. Continue to get well and we pray 🙏 you'll be back to 100% soon. I use two WD My Books to store images, one is a primary and the other is a backup. I started saving all my images but recently started saving just the keepers and deleting the others.
So glad to see you back and on the mend. Great topic today. And I really enjoy Raymond.s style.
Prayers sent! Nice to see you back Leigh!!! And yes Raymond has done a fantastic job!
Go Leigh!!! Stay 💪 strong!!!! You guys are great. Healing vibes! Glad to hear Raymond will accompany you in upcoming videos. This channel is awesome! Thanks you both! I have a 4 drive synology NAS. Need to find a cloud backup for it.
As an amateur i just keep the SD cards from important trips/holidays/events in an container for sometime until i have edited the shots/videos into a final presentation then back up on external drives . As the SD cards are now relatively cheap i will keep the used ones as back up .My digital pics from 2000 & scanned photos from our family collection , 1930 on to now , are on CDs .But from now on the external ssd drives are ok plus i have 22,000 pics on Google Photos & Drive. That means 3 copies. I am 76 . I still use Picasa as the library viewer.
So glad you are feeling and getting better. Best wish for your recovery
It's so good to see you!
Good to see you again! Welcome back! However, take it easy!
So great to see you back on the road back to recovery. And very much props to Raymond, I've been in his place, with young kids and that was enough without needing to run a business and RUclips chanel. Take it steady both.
Really great advice on here too! Like the structure. You could also add a readme file or simila to the month folders to keep short notes.
You have a good man, there! Glad to see you're on the mend, but don't push it. We'll be around.
So glad to see you back!
Glad to see you’re better!
hope you well Leigh . Missed you
I'm soo happy you are back. I'm looking forward to all the new content. I'm very partial to SSD G Drives. Perhaps you could do a piece on speedlight and softbox options for mirrorless cameras
Great to see you back, Leigh! And great video, Raymond, taking what is often regarded as a tedious subject, and presenting it in a form that made me think about my process (or lack of it).
nice to have you back
Great to see you up and around and yes Raymond should get more on-air time. I am one of the many ,as an enthusiast, never worried about backups. I wouldn’t miss most of my photos, if I lost them. I usually print the ones I like and the rest just sit on my hard drive. However, now that I am trying to record all the old family pixs, i have to consider backing up my work. Thank you for sharing your pricedures.
Excellent Video!! I really like that both Raymond & Leigh made the video collaboratively, they obviously make a great team. Leigh, very happy to see you standing upright!! ( I suffer from Sciatica so I know the pain, can you please mention the brand of the belt you are wearing, I think it might help!) and Raymond, great presentation!! I enjoy how you speak and how you explain things in a way that is easy to understand. Now on to my storage process, I keep my original photos & videos on fast SSD drives by year, by month, by camera, and by topic. I have created an LR catalogue with the same design, but I only include files I want to work with (I exclude out of focus and other files). MY LR files are stored on a local NAS (QNAP) with the same structure as the original files. What I need now is a Cloud Backup Solution, BackBlaze is mentioned in the comments - I need to research that.