10-13-2015, 07:38 PM
I think here it depends a lot on what you expect of the cloud backup. Personally, I'm happy for it to be the 3rd copy, offsite. I will still keep two local copies, the live and a fast access backup. The cloud copy would be insurance against a site level disaster, and not something that would normally be accessed at all.
I'm also not that trusting, hence if if were to go this route, I'd only upload encrypted files in some form. Strong enough to prevent routine snooping anyway.
Back on my problems, I found 3 more corrupted files today. These were a little different, in that only part of the image is corrupted. Again in a hex editor, I'm seeing zeros where the missing data should be. This was only found as I left Picasa desktop running. This creates thumbnails quickly from the jpeg embedded in the raw, then slowly opens each raw to generate a better thumbnail from the full image. Here it becomes obvious when there is corruption as it is visible in the thumbnail.
I'm also not that trusting, hence if if were to go this route, I'd only upload encrypted files in some form. Strong enough to prevent routine snooping anyway.
Back on my problems, I found 3 more corrupted files today. These were a little different, in that only part of the image is corrupted. Again in a hex editor, I'm seeing zeros where the missing data should be. This was only found as I left Picasa desktop running. This creates thumbnails quickly from the jpeg embedded in the raw, then slowly opens each raw to generate a better thumbnail from the full image. Here it becomes obvious when there is corruption as it is visible in the thumbnail.
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