Request: Pix posting- grab it and upload, don't link to other site Options

[SuperMacGuy]

If you can, can you please upload pix or keep them always up on a dedicated or private site? I'm reading back through some old posts, since I finally have the cash for some car upgrades, and older posts link to websites that have moved pages or those photo hosting sites that have shut down, deleted pictures, etc. So if the text doesn't describe what you are talking about well enough, after the link/photo goes away it's hard to know what to think of the topic or reply.
So this is just a request if you can do it, to think about someone reading the site about 4 years later. If it's uploaded here I imagine it will stay with the posts and that would help tremendously. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/2thumbs.gif)
Thanks all,
Chris

[trackbird]

I've tried to pull photos, resize them and attach them. I don't always get them, but anyone can feel free to ask me to host a pic on the board (I do try to watch server space and bandwidth, but good records are important too).

[v7guy]

I've had similar problems, oddly enough with my own photos. I did yarn testing and can't recover the photos. I had a hard drive crash and had only uploaded them to vilipend (s/p) I know keep pics on multiple hd and a couple online sites, but there's no real reliable place I've found to back them up as over the course of 4-5 yrs you're bound to loose 1-2 of the sites/hd the pics were located on.

Anyone know any reliable backups... hardware,software solutions? currently I run 2 comps with 2 partitions

[Racing Geek]

I've got a 16G flash drive/jump drive (whatever you want to call it) that I copy all my files onto monthly. When my laptop crashed it took all of ~8 minutes to put all my programs, settings and files back on the computer. To make sure I don't loose the little flash drive, I keep it on my keychain, and if I ever loose my keys... about every other month I copy everything onto my other 8G flash drive which I keep in my room by my calipers, micrometers and model building tools/paints. I also try and save all my pictures to my photobucket account so I can host my own pictures. Between all that I never really had a problem.


EDIT:
If you wanted, you could even keep a flash drive in a safe to protect your files in case of a fire or robbery or something. One of my friends houses unfortunately burned down a few years back and they had all their computer files on an external hard drive and in the safe so everything was ok.

This post has been edited by Racing Geek: Feb 28 2010, 10:53 AM

[trackbird]

I back up between multiple machines on my home network and I use a 1 TB backup drive in my main computer and copy files there for insurance against a hard drive crash (some are also on a flash drive and also on my laptop too). I have lost some stuff, but not so much now that I've started this overkill. Oh, the important stuff is also stored on my Linux server too...just because it's sitting here.