How are you backing up your photos?

6 years 9 months ago #534994 by Joan Barnes
A close friend of mine who was storing all her photos on one single computer, just had her house broken into and the computer was one of the items stolen.  At least I have mine spread out between two computers in my home. 

However what this incident has taught me, is that anything can happen.  I need to be prepared.  Keeping that in mind I'm particularly interested in how others are keeping their photos stored locally and some sort of off site backup? 


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6 years 9 months ago #535129 by Walter Tidwell
Dropbox and secondary drives in my home


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6 years 8 months ago #535210 by Jessa Layton
Back up drives 


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6 years 8 months ago #535294 by whbjr
I use an external Lacie 4 TB raid drive. It looks like a single drive to my computer but is in reality two separate drives with mirrored data. If a drive fails, just replace it and the drive automatically remirrors. I keep it in a secured location. Protected from theft, fire, and failure. 


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6 years 8 months ago - 6 years 8 months ago #535298 by Screamin Scott
Dual Western Digital 4TB External hard drives plus Google photos & Flickr...

Scott Ditzel Photography

www.flickr.com/photos/screaminscott/

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6 years 8 months ago #535311 by PhotoViking
EVERYTHING is copied to Dropbox, + app. 1* per month to an external disc.
Dropbox is good; runs automatically, don't even have to think about it.

Festina lente!
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6 years 8 months ago #535525 by Overread
Dropbox 


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6 years 8 months ago #535581 by clbryant1981
I only keep photos I'm working on on my computer.  Some of my favorites are stored on Dropbox. All the rest are on a 1tb portable drive that stays in my bag.  That drive is backed up to 2 different drives and backed up once a month.  One drive stays in a safe, the other in my office at work.  Nothing is fail proof, but with the drives spread out a lot has to happen for me to lose everything.  Mind you I am not a pro and do not sell photographs or do events.  


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6 years 8 months ago #535647 by effron
External hard drives, I have about ten from one to four terabytes. I don't use anything online or remote.

Why so serious?
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6 years 8 months ago #536494 by Happy Hour
2 spare hard drives on separate machine


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6 years 8 months ago #536526 by rosh4u
Drop box and external hard drives are better options as a computer can also crash many times so I would say that it is better to have another backup alternative.


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