I have been spending more than 2/3 of all my free time on iNaturalist and I have been quite worried about data loss. I am assuming that all my inat data can be lost if iNat server is physically broken for example, and then it would be a huge damage to my entire life. To prevent this, I have been loo…

[image] invertebratist: I have been quite worried about data loss. I am assuming that all my inat data can be lost if iNat server is physically broken for example Back to the original post, does this thread so far mostly answer your question @glycymeri? To summarize: As bad as the recent Az…

At this point, I look at this very differently. I post thousands of photos on iNaturalist. I then delete most of the photos. I don’t need them and if I change my mind, a copy will be available on iNaturalist, poorer quality than the original but that’s the risk I take when I free up space by dele…

I don’t have much knowledge about technical things so really appreciate comments posted here. I cannot afford to keep paying for a cloud storage provider every year so probably what I should do at first is to get a hard disc and get data exported. I am looking at other methods suggested right now a…

I only make an attempt to save my original photos of organisms that are rarely documented photographically. I’ve had several requests from authors of books etc. to use my original photos. iNat’s backup processes are far better than I could ever afford, and if global society goes so far down the drai…

[image] jcook: As bad as the recent Azure outage was, the amount of data redundancy it has means that permanent loss of iNat’s observation data is just about the least likely thing that could go wrong. As far as there bieng no loss of data: This Western pond turtle observation does still hav…

[image] sedgequeen: I can hear you say, “But . . . but . . . don’t delete the photos – you might need them!” I’m always trying to get to that point - I know I’ll never look at my old plant pictures, so why go through the trouble of backing up 10s of 1000s of pictures. But then there’s two exc…

I’ve gotten pretty good at posting the best, but if there was an out of focus image that had some part in excellent focus that was not in focus in the good photos, I keep it until my next harddrive backup just in case. Once that occurs, I delete the original raw files so if was needed it would be a …

I have been wondering if there are any methods to download all of my iNat observations (Set of images, observed date, location, IDs or community IDs, and description) to a hard device, ideally in a condition which I can search and filter those downloaded observations at least by IDs and by observed …

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-option-to-download-all-my-photos-and-data/13722

Is there a recommended way to backup all my iNat data?

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tiwane September 1, 2022, 5:33pm 23

Notifications are eventually deleted anyway - I can’t remember if it’s after 30 or 90 days, but it’s something like that.

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Is there a recommended way to backup all my iNat data?

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