timmmay:

 

Sam91:

 

This sucks. My brother is a disorganised photographer. Pretty much every photo he takes ends up on a hard drive. This has led to him having something like 40 external hard drives lol. Most of the data is doubled up, but in no particular order. In the absence of any backup plan, my plan has been to push as much of this data up to Crashplan, so if a hard drive dies, at least it might be in the cloud. I have 2 Mac Minis running around the clock, each Mac Mini has its own subscription (I figured they were throttling). Anyway, this completely stuffs up this plan. The price per computer has doubled, and it looks like you can only migrate 5TB across to a new account from an old account. Surely you should be able to migrate all your data across, rather than having to upload it again.

 

 

If he's a professional that's really not on.

 

He's basically guaranteed to lose data. You should probably get him onto a NAS that has plenty of storage and is expandable, have that backed up somewhere automatically, and get him to migrate all his data systematically to the NAS.

 

The problem with NAS is that it's a cost upfront (hardware and storage). But then people go buying drives left and right to keep up with their non-NAS/planned "backup" until they lose everything and cry.