Eric,

I have a new personal stuff rule that says:  2 cloud copies and 2 local copies of everything important

For cloud, there are more solutions than letters in the alphabet, but, since you mention your iPhone, iCloud is $120/year for a terabyte.  And, everything is automatic.

Google Drive is also $120/year for a terabyte.

I'm also a fan of the lower-profile but rock-solid  Mozy.com service.  It's way more expensive $120/year gets you a mere  125GB, but it is auto-magical on the desktop.  I can easily set a custom, folder-by-folder profile of what to backup off of my PC to the cloud.   AND, I can have that same profile replicate the same backup to a separate shelf drive.  And all actions can be set to be as automatic and as frequent as you like.   So, I have two separate drives in the house, and two in the cloud.

Of course, there's always the 35mm film option.....


Tom Klingler
Chief Medical Librarian
Ocasek Medical Library
Northeast Ohio Medical University
4209 St. Rt. 44 | PO Box 95 | Rootstown, Ohio 44272
Office: 330-325-6606
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:50 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 46 gigabytes

This is slightly tangential, but I've found JPEGMini to be a good tool to reduce the file sizes of my JPEGs without loss of quality:

http://www.jpegmini.com/

So if a lot of your 46 GB is images, you might start with that to reduce the overall footprint.
Roy