How do you guys store your personal data, pictures, projects you're working on; and how do you travel with it when you go away for a few days or a weekend?
Right now I keep general files, music, movies, pdf reference books etc, on my home server. I keep photos on my desktop computer. The server gets backed up to drive A. The desktop gets backed up to Drive B.
When I travel I sometimes copy data from the desktop to my laptop or usb memory sticks to work on and when I come back I copy the data back to the desktop. This is less than idea. I used to sync a USB stick with certain folders on the desktop but there was a point where things got out of sync and I no longer do that.
The laptop I have is new so I don't really store any data on here. I'm considering using windows offline folders for the files that I need constant access to and moving everything to the home server. Then when I leave the folder structure is maintained and I will have all my files with me.
I'm not sure of the best way to do this yet and I'm looking for input.
I'm especially interested in this because I recently got a photo management software that requires the photos to be in a managed folder structure. When i'm on the go and tagging photos I want to be able to go home and just have everything sync back to the server. The photo software embeds data in the picture metadata so it's important that the files get uploaded back to the server so the metadata is kept.
Right now I keep general files, music, movies, pdf reference books etc, on my home server. I keep photos on my desktop computer. The server gets backed up to drive A. The desktop gets backed up to Drive B.
When I travel I sometimes copy data from the desktop to my laptop or usb memory sticks to work on and when I come back I copy the data back to the desktop. This is less than idea. I used to sync a USB stick with certain folders on the desktop but there was a point where things got out of sync and I no longer do that.
The laptop I have is new so I don't really store any data on here. I'm considering using windows offline folders for the files that I need constant access to and moving everything to the home server. Then when I leave the folder structure is maintained and I will have all my files with me.
I'm not sure of the best way to do this yet and I'm looking for input.
I'm especially interested in this because I recently got a photo management software that requires the photos to be in a managed folder structure. When i'm on the go and tagging photos I want to be able to go home and just have everything sync back to the server. The photo software embeds data in the picture metadata so it's important that the files get uploaded back to the server so the metadata is kept.