So Google Drive is finally here with, as far as I can see, the best prices for cloud storage available at the moment. With all my music backed up to Google Play Music, the only things of significant size that I would really miss with a hard drive failure are my photos. These currently stand at about 80GB, but with an extra gigabyte for every forty photos from my 60D this is a number that will grow quickly. I have thus decided to go for 200GB on Google Drive, and at $10 a month I believe this is a fantastic deal for the kind of redundancy I'll be getting.
So, now I've started planning how I'm going to set this up in a way that will not require constant maintenance and copying of files. What I really want to do is configure it in a way that my Lightroom catalog and all my photos are kept constantly in sync.
The plan...
Basically, I am going to have all my photos and my Lightroom catalog on my main pc, in the Google Drive folder that will always sync with the cloud. Any other computers that I have set up for Drive will only sync a folder I'm going to call "Sync Everywhere" that will be used for general file sharing.
Assuming my research is correct, if I convert all my photos to DNG I will be able to set up Lightroom to save adjustments to the DNG file itself instead of the catalog. I'm hoping this will help make my photos, including adjustments, compatible with future software. Before fully committing to this, I am going to have to do some testing over the weekend to see how it works in practice between my desktop and a laptop.
I know there are concerns being voiced by some people over Google's T&C's, but personally they don't concern me and seem no worse than Skydrive or Dropbox.
The implementation...
...will take a while to be realised. I have 3mb upload speeds, which means it will probably take an absolute minimum of 65 hours to upload everything. I don't feel comfortable leaving my computer on 24/7, so this will probably take a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, I will keep updating my progress to let people know how successful it works in implementation in case anybody else had considered something along these lines.
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