Free Unlimited Online Backup, Essentially
Yesterday, Yahoo announced that as of May, storage limits will be lifted from their email accounts. That's good news for all of us who refuse to delete any email, ever. But it may also be good news for those of us looking for a free way to backup our favorite images online. Sure, we could pay to do it. But what if we were to set up a separate email account just for picture backup. Once a week or so we could send ourselves our favorite pictures, even our RAW files.* We could put keywords, titles, and any other relevant information in the body of the email. That way, if we needed to retrieve any of the photos, we could use Yahoo Mail's excellent built-in search to dig them out.
*The current attachment limit is 10 MB, so you might have to send yourself a few messages at a time.
Sounds pretty much like gmail then, 10mb limit for attachments.
Posted by: keith | April 03, 2007 at 07:37 PM
Might work only for a while until Yahoo suspends your account due to "unreasonable usage". Their terms are vague and there is no guarantee that your photos will be available forever.
Posted by: Bobby | June 19, 2007 at 01:36 PM
Xdrive offers an online storage and backup service that is web-based (no software to download) that offers 5GB of storage space. The files you upload can be organized into folders. This could be a good storage solution for photos because the individual file size limit should be well above the 10MB attachment limit for Yahoo Mail. The only catch is that you have to have an AOL id to sign up for an Xdrive account.
Posted by: Bayard | August 12, 2007 at 03:32 PM
It's a good idea, but I prefer to use a dedicated online backup service. That way you don't have to remember to actually perform your backups as it all happens automatically. It also makes retrieving your files a breeze as they're all stored in an Explorer type interface. The one I use is Angel Backup (http://www.AngelBackup.com) - as they're the only ones who guarantee to protect your files against hardware failure, viruses, human error, natural disaster, swarms of killer bees, zombies, alien invasion etc, etc.
Posted by: Jason Patterson | December 05, 2007 at 06:19 PM
Hmmm. Nice URL formatting there. Should have read http://www.AngelBackup.com
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