Agreed about high dropbox pricing. But it isn't too bad imho.
There are three inter-related concepts: backup (mirror of your hdd), archiving (extension of your hdd), sync (subset of files on multiple devices) and sharing.
But if you're ok with using different services for different purposes, you can easily get what you want.
To archive non-media files, 5 GB should be sufficient. To archive media files, pay $60/yr to Vimeo for video and $25/yr to Flickr for unlimited storage.
For backup, pay $50/yr to Backblaze.
If you try to use a service optimized for sharing and sync (Dropbox) for archival and backup, you're going to experience friction.
> To archive non-media files, 5 GB should be sufficient. To archive media files, pay $60/yr to Vimeo for video and $25/yr to Flickr for unlimited storage.
Note that Flickr will only archive certain types of media—you can't store your RAW files or other related stuff (presets, actions) with them. I believe Smugmug and a few of the other services do this, though.
There are three inter-related concepts: backup (mirror of your hdd), archiving (extension of your hdd), sync (subset of files on multiple devices) and sharing.
But if you're ok with using different services for different purposes, you can easily get what you want.
To archive non-media files, 5 GB should be sufficient. To archive media files, pay $60/yr to Vimeo for video and $25/yr to Flickr for unlimited storage.
For backup, pay $50/yr to Backblaze.
If you try to use a service optimized for sharing and sync (Dropbox) for archival and backup, you're going to experience friction.
Just my two cents.