Vacation Backup System – Thank you for the idea

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18107931
The article you posted says this about ES File Manager:

From that I read if you buy the Pro version you should be OK and (hopefully) will like how it works....

Thanks for the info. I have the free ES on my Android and it is OK. I rarely use it these days, actually. If I find I need to work more with files on my phone, I will look for something better.

Archibald wrote in post #18107205
You can copy all the files on a memory card to your Android, limited of course by the free memory space on the device, and then back out to a flash drive. For redundancy, copy to more than one flash drive.Hey, don't take it so hard!

Not, not suitable for taking hundreds of photos during vacation.

Surely ideally you want something in the cloud so if everything gets stolen you are ok? Wouldn't a tablet and drop box be a good idea?

Cloud would be useful, but if you are abroad, reliant on flaky hotel wifi or ludicrously expensive international roaming rates you need something where you carry the physical media.

This whole topic is one that really frustrates me.

I've recently moved from Android to Apple. Hey, Apple is for creative folk, right? But it seems that the product managers in Apple have never really worked with any kind of photographer in their lives.

All I would want to do is plug in my camera or a card reader and copy images off a card onto the iPad memory. Then remove the card, and plug in a portable hard drive with its own power source. Finally copy the images off the iPad and onto that hard drive (probably repeating this for a second hard drive) before deleting them from the iPad.

There is nothing in this that an iPad couldn't do, but Apple clearly doesn't want its customers to be able to do that.

To be fair, it would cost Apple money to do that in terms of testing and verifying it every release and support calls on something that some customers might find complicated. But it would make it into a heck of a useful thing for travel / holiday photographers.

I know that some will say that iCloud should do everything you need, but they probably haven't tried to working in a remote hotel with dodgy wifi, or had to pay to upload multiple gigabytes of RAW files over pay-by-megabyte international cellphone connections.

Sadly, I don't think that we are a big enough group of people to interest Apple.

And, on the other side of the coin, I tried setting up an Android table to speak to an external 3.5" HDD, with its own power supply. Then a second 3.5" HDD so that I had at least minimal redundancy. And I was pretty much the same size and weight as a laptop.

So I've given up - I'll take my iPad to watch movies on the flight, and I'll take the laptop to do anything actually useful.

alan_potter wrote in post #18111189
And, on the other side of the coin, I tried setting up an Android table to speak to an external 3.5" HDD, with its own power supply. Then a second 3.5" HDD so that I had at least minimal redundancy. And I was pretty much the same size and weight as a laptop.

So I've given up - I'll take my iPad to watch movies on the flight, and I'll take the laptop to do anything actually useful.

I use Apple's Lightning SD Card reader to transfer images to my iPhone.

If you want to then copy images back, you can use Dropbox. Free 2GB account and 1TB for $99 a year. It will be on your computer's drive if Dropbox is syncing with it. Not the best solution but the best I can come up with.

Here's my referral link to Dropbox:
https://db.tt/TL0dSO9f

gossamer88 wrote in post #18111217
I use Apple's Lightning SD Card reader to transfer images to my iPhone.

If you want to then copy images back, you can use Dropbox. Free 2GB account and 1TB for $99 a year. It will be on your computer's drive if Dropbox is syncing with it. Not the best solution but the best I can come up with.

Here's my referral link to Dropbox:
https://db.tt/TL0dSO9f

How long would it take to upload 400 raw files to Dropbox on a hotel Wifi?

Is a CS100 not an option? I know it has a USB2 connection, but it also has an Ethernet port.

That looks interesting. Thank you, I hadn't heard of it. Mind you, the Canon UK site has only two reviews, both 100% negative. That's not a good sign

alan_potter wrote in post #18111401
That looks interesting. Thank you, I hadn't heard of it. Mind you, the Canon UK site has only two reviews, both 100% negative. That's not a good sign

Same negative reviews on Amazon and B&H. That's why I'm hesitant to buy one. The price in Canada fell for this just recently so it's tempting.