Every post on the Total Vault blog tagged "backup". Long-form writing on backup, archival, AI search, and the realities of running a creative archive.

The 3-2-1 backup rule is forty years old. It still works — but the way photographers should actually implement it in 2025 looks nothing like the way IBM described it in 1985.

The exact card-to-archive workflow we recommend to wedding photographers, including the parts most photographers skip: when to verify, when to delete, and when to walk away from a venue.

A founder's-eye view of the storage vendor decision: S3 vs B2 vs R2 vs Wasabi, what the per-TB numbers actually look like at small scale, and why we picked Backblaze for the master copy.

Fixity is the boring word for the thing that decides whether your archive is real. Here's why we built it into the product instead of leaving it to the storage vendor.

Why a closet shelf of externals isn't a plan — with math, drive failure rates, and a recovery story you don't want to live through.