[elorant]

I had a conversation the other day with a bunch of wedding photographers and it’s amazing how much money they spend on a yearly basis on backup. They all shoot raw and they end up with something like 50-60GB of data per event. And that’s only for photographers, videographers are on a completely different scale.

Now, their number one problem isn’t storage per se, since cost per TB is constantly dropping, but uploading data to the cloud. It takes them anything from days to a full week to upload data.

So here’s my $64.000 question. Why hasn’t anyone tried to disrupt this industry? How about setting up a cloud backup company that sends you a portable disk where you write your data and then send it back. From my understanding money isn’t an issue, they would gladly pay tens of dollars on a monthly fee if someone could handle all their backup issues for them.

[actionscripted]

Crash Plan already offers this: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Backup/Seeded_Bac...

As I believe many larger backup services do nowadays.

[andrewryno]

At least some large cloud storage providers offer it. For example, AWS has Import/Export[0] and Google has Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage[1].

[0] http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

[1] https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/early-access

[elorant]

Oh nice, I didn't know that. Thanks a million :)