The US bandwidth situation is the elephant in the room.
There really is no good solution to automated offsite backup when it takes several days of uploading to handle a single day's worth of data capture. To make any internet-backup service work, you'd first have to pitch the photog on switching from their residential broadband package to something more expensive -- if that's even available short of their leasing office space somewhere.
I guess you could try to build out a reverse-CDN sort of network, with local relay nodes scattered across the various ISP networks, that might achieve faster uploads from the user (and maybe not get counted against bandwidth caps) which then use a fat pipe to send that data to larger regional storage nodes.
There really is no good solution to automated offsite backup when it takes several days of uploading to handle a single day's worth of data capture. To make any internet-backup service work, you'd first have to pitch the photog on switching from their residential broadband package to something more expensive -- if that's even available short of their leasing office space somewhere.
I guess you could try to build out a reverse-CDN sort of network, with local relay nodes scattered across the various ISP networks, that might achieve faster uploads from the user (and maybe not get counted against bandwidth caps) which then use a fat pipe to send that data to larger regional storage nodes.
Neither seems particularly plausible at scale.