Q: Best app to backup my photos from iPhoto?
Hello Community,
After a disk error which required me to reformat my HD, then a full Time Machine restore and then a reinstallation of Snow Leopard, I discovered that a few hundred photos were missing from iPhoto. I read many of the suggestions in the Communities and rebuilt the database, etc. but to no avail. For some reason Time Machine wasn't backing up those few rolls in iPhoto and so I have no backups to fall back on.
I have spoken with Tier 1 and Tier 2 Apple Support techs on the phone and the basic conclusion is that there must've been something wrong with those files and so Time Machine skipped them - without an errors or notifications to me. Too bad, so sad for me. (Why our precious photos and not stupid spreadsheets or something?!)
Now having faced the wrath and scorn of my dear wife over these lost photos, I am looking for a secondary backup solution. I plan to continue using Time Machine but I need a plan B. I was archiving parts of my iPhoto Library manually to DVD, but it turns out that it's been 18 months since I did my last one (I swear I did one much more recently...) Suggestions? After having researched many different cloud backup options (Dropbox, Mozy Home, Backblaze, Carbonite, Picasa Web, iDrive and Sugar Sync) I am thinking about going with Backblaze. It seems very well reviewed.
Any suggestions or guidance? All greatly appreciated.
iMac 24, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Nov 21, 2011 4:54 PM