Smugmug Questions

LR6

I am thinking of opening a Smugmug standard account to back up my pictures that I have taken and scanned in.

Only problem is that I take to many photos and I already have >30GB that I would like backed up.

Altough you get unlimited storage, it looks like that you only get 6GB of traffic a month. This means that it would take over 5 months to upload all of my current pictures. After the initial upload, my traffic needs would drop considerbly. I would not ever need to download these unless something very very bad happened to my current PC and local backups. I really just need some "data insurance"

What would be the best way to proced here? I am starting to think that having some external harddrives and keeping one in a safty deposit box or something and swaping them out reguraly may be the way to go.

What do you think?

Cason

I think that traffic is download only.

Taken from https://www.smugmug.com/aboutus/limits.mg

What's traffic?

Photo views. Normal accounts get 6 gigabytes of photo views/month.
In English: that's about 90,000 medium-sized photo views/month, a lot.
Power Users get twice that. Pros get unlimited traffic.


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Andy

LR6 wrote:

I am thinking of opening a Smugmug standard account to back up my pictures that I have taken and scanned in.

Only problem is that I take to many photos and I already have >30GB that I would like backed up.

Altough you get unlimited storage, it looks like that you only get 6GB of traffic a month. This means that it would take over 5 months to upload all of my current pictures. After the initial upload, my traffic needs would drop considerbly. I would not ever need to download these unless something very very bad happened to my current PC and local backups. I really just need some "data insurance"

What would be the best way to proced here? I am starting to think that having some external harddrives and keeping one in a safty deposit box or something and swaping them out reguraly may be the way to go.

What do you think?

Upload all you like - there's no limit on upload bandwidth