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This is getting rather off-topic for NatureNS, my apologies, but just
briefly there is a rule of thumb for backups called the 3-2-1 Backup
Strategy <https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/>:
- at least 3 copies of your data
- 2 copies local but on different media
- 1 copy off-site.
If you value your digital images you should be thinking along these
lines, in my opinion. Lots of companies offer cloud backup these days,
but it should be thought of as just that; backup. If it fails for some
reason, you have only lost your backup, which you re-build asap from
your main copies.
Sorry for all the computer talk.
Peter Payzant
On 2015-08-11 11:47 AM, Bev Wigney wrote:
> All,
>
> I had checked a couple of photography forums this morning (DPReview,
> etc) and people in different parts of the world were seeing different
> things when they went to their Pbase accounts. in any case, I just
> checked an my Round Hill Moths gallery is back up online.
> I do agree with what John just mentioned about backing stuff up.
> Aside from what is in my iMac (my whole nature photo collection), I
> keep 3 hard drives at 2 locations. if you're serious about your
> photos, then I think it's important to not only back up, but store
> your work in a couple of places in the event of some catastrophe. At
> the price of a drives such as the Western Digital "My Passport",
> there's not much excuse for not keeping at least a couple of drives
> around.
> What seems more difficult to me is to keep an active system of
> organizing photos somewhere - online - so that you have them available
> for reference, and can share images with others. I've been using
> Pbase for many years - going back to around 2003. If the service ever
> went "poof", I'd still have my photos in the drives, but the work that
> I put into forming galleries, labelling everything, etc.. would all be
> gone. I do have iPhoto and can notate everything, but it's not really
> the answer either. I'm not sure that there actually is a solution to
> some of these problems. The best thing is probably to acknowledge
> that just about anything could disappear, so it's good to figure out
> ways to protect your data - both on and offline.
>
> regards,
> Bev Wigney
> Round Hill, NS
>
>
>
> On 2015-08-11, at 11:25 AM, John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca
> <mailto:nhungjohn@eastlink.ca>> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there’s a lesson here about backing stuff up “off-cloud.”
>> Seems sometimes as if the more sophisticated we get, the more
>> vulnerable to surprises we become.
>> *From:*naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
>> <mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
>> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
>> <mailto:owner@chebucto.ns.ca>]*On Behalf Of*Richard Stern
>> *Sent:*August 11, 2015 9:59 AM
>> *To:*NatureNS
>> *Subject:*Re: [NatureNS] Photo site "PBase.com <http://PBase.com>"
>> I changed from Pbase to Smugmug about 2 years ago because Pbase kept
>> going down and was unreliable . However, I kept up muy Pbase payments
>> so that I could still access my old online pics. I'm not surprised
>> they have disappeared, but it's a pity, and annoying that they
>> haven't given any notice.
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Phil Schappert <philjs@eastlink.ca
>> <mailto:philjs@eastlink.ca>> wrote:
>> At 9:17 AM -0300 8/11/15, Peter Payzant wrote:
>> Some of us on the NatureNS list use the photo-sharing sitepbase.com
>> <http://pbase.com>to make our photos available to others. It looks as
>> if their domain name registration has expired - I went topbase.com
>> <http://pbase.com>this morning and found something completely
>> different. It's just a site offering to sell the domain name to
>> anybody who wants it. Does anybody know anything about this? Did
>> pbase show signs of shutting down?
>>
>> That's a real shame...I used Tom Murray's (author of "Insects of New
>> England and New York") site a lot. I had noticed a change on
>> Saturday...my link to Tom's site stopped working but a Google search
>> gave me the same URL with "/root" appended to the end. That worked on
>> Saturday but is NOT working now.
>>
>> A Whois search turns up Network Solutions (an ISP) as the owner so,
>> yes, it looks like whoever actually owned the domain has allowed it
>> to lapse.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> --
>>
>> Phil Schappert, PhD
>>
>> 27 Clovis Ave.
>> Halifax, NS, B3P 1J3
>>
>> philschappert.ca <http://philschappert.ca>
>> imaginaturestudio.ca <http://imaginaturestudio.ca>
>> imaginaturestudio.blogspot.ca <http://imaginaturestudio.blogspot.ca>
>> philschappert.com <http://philschappert.com>
>>
>> "Just let imagination lead, reality will follow through..."
>> (Michael Hedges)
>>
>>
>> --
>> #################
>> Richard Stern,
>> Port Williams, NS, Canada
>> sternrichard@gmail.com <mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com>
>> ###################
>>
>>
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This is getting rather off-topic for NatureNS, my apologies, but
just briefly there is a rule of thumb for backups called the <a
href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/">3-2-1
Backup Strategy</a>:<br>
<br>
- at least 3 copies of your data<br>
- 2 copies local but on different media<br>
- 1 copy off-site.<br>
<br>
If you value your digital images you should be thinking along these
lines, in my opinion. Lots of companies offer cloud backup these
days, but it should be thought of as just that; backup. If it fails
for some reason, you have only lost your backup, which you re-build
asap from your main copies.<br>
<br>
Sorry for all the computer talk.<br>
<br>
Peter Payzant<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-08-11 11:47 AM, Bev Wigney
wrote:<br>
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<base href="x-msg://91/">All,
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<div>I had checked a couple of photography forums this morning
(DPReview, etc) and people in different parts of the world were
seeing different things when they went to their Pbase accounts.
in any case, I just checked an my Round Hill Moths gallery is
back up online. </div>
<div>I do agree with what John just mentioned about backing stuff
up. Aside from what is in my iMac (my whole nature photo
collection), I keep 3 hard drives at 2 locations. if you're
serious about your photos, then I think it's important to not
only back up, but store your work in a couple of places in the
event of some catastrophe. At the price of a drives such as the
Western Digital "My Passport", there's not much excuse for not
keeping at least a couple of drives around. </div>
<div>What seems more difficult to me is to keep an active system
of organizing photos somewhere - online - so that you have them
available for reference, and can share images with others. I've
been using Pbase for many years - going back to around 2003. If
the service ever went "poof", I'd still have my photos in the
drives, but the work that I put into forming galleries,
labelling everything, etc.. would all be gone. I do have iPhoto
and can notate everything, but it's not really the answer
either. I'm not sure that there actually is a solution to some
of these problems. The best thing is probably to acknowledge
that just about anything could disappear, so it's good to figure
out ways to protect your data - both on and offline.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>regards,</div>
<div>Bev Wigney</div>
<div>Round Hill, NS</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
<div>
<div>On 2015-08-11, at 11:25 AM, John and Nhung <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:nhungjohn@eastlink.ca">nhungjohn@eastlink.ca>
wrote:</div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; ">
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I wonder if
there’s a lesson here about backing stuff up
“off-cloud.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Seems
sometimes as if the more sophisticated we get, the
more vulnerable to surprises we become.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma,
sans-serif; " lang="EN-US"><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
[mailto:naturens-<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:owner@chebucto.ns.ca">owner@chebucto.ns.ca</a>]<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf
Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Richard
Stern<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>August
11, 2015 9:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NatureNS<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re:
[NatureNS] Photo site "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://PBase.com">PBase.com</a>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">I changed
from Pbase to Smugmug about 2 years ago because
Pbase kept going down and was unreliable . However,
I kept up muy Pbase payments so that I could still
access my old online pics. I'm not surprised they
have disappeared, but it's a pity, and annoying that
they haven't given any notice.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">On
Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Phil Schappert
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:philjs@eastlink.ca"
target="_blank" style="color: purple;
text-decoration: underline; ">philjs@eastlink.ca</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">At
9:17 AM -0300 8/11/15, Peter Payzant wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Some
of us on the NatureNS list use the photo-sharing
site<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://pbase.com"
target="_blank" style="color: purple;
text-decoration: underline; ">pbase.com</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to make
our photos available to others. It looks as if
their domain name registration has expired - I
went to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://pbase.com"
target="_blank" style="color: purple;
text-decoration: underline; ">pbase.com</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>this
morning and found something completely
different. It's just a site offering to sell the
domain name to anybody who wants it. Does
anybody know anything about this? Did pbase show
signs of shutting down?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br>
That's a real shame...I used Tom Murray's
(author of "Insects of New England and New
York") site a lot. I had noticed a change on
Saturday...my link to Tom's site stopped working
but a Google search gave me the same URL with
"/root" appended to the end. That worked on
Saturday but is NOT working now.<br>
<br>
A Whois search turns up Network Solutions (an
ISP) as the owner so, yes, it looks like whoever
actually owned the domain has allowed it to
lapse.<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
<br>
--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<br>
Phil Schappert, PhD<br>
<br>
27 Clovis Ave.<br>
Halifax, NS, B3P 1J3<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://philschappert.ca" target="_blank"
style="color: purple; text-decoration:
underline; ">philschappert.ca</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://imaginaturestudio.ca"
target="_blank" style="color: purple;
text-decoration: underline; ">imaginaturestudio.ca</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://imaginaturestudio.blogspot.ca"
target="_blank" style="color: purple;
text-decoration: underline; ">imaginaturestudio.blogspot.ca</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://philschappert.com"
target="_blank" style="color: purple;
text-decoration: underline; ">philschappert.com</a><br>
<br>
"Just let imagination lead, reality will follow
through..."<br>
(Michael
Hedges)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">#################<br>
Richard Stern,<span
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Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com"
target="_blank" style="color: purple;
text-decoration: underline; ">sternrichard@gmail.com</a><br>
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