Image Backup
My own collection of photos is now about 400,000 images. These are backed up on my PC and two external hard drives one of which is in a separate room and the other at a friends house.
I keep a pretty strict protocol on keeping the backups updated. The only time a single copy of an image exists is while it is in the camera. I copy it to the main PC as soon as I get home. It remains on the memory card until I back up the hard drive once a week or so. Every month or so I swap out external hard drives fro my friends house and update the oldest on those.
I am reminded just how important it is to keep the backups current every month or so when someone tells a story of a drive that stopped working or a computer that fried the files in one form or another. I am also reminded when someone asks the question TC has brought up in this thread.
“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
Nice. Thanks for the laugh. Sure, practice makes perfect but, unless you learn from your mistakes, you are only perfecting your ability to fail.
Fortunately, drives are cheap, and you can get a mirrored RAID enclosure cheap too.
Matthew
An example (with drives):
www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-My-Book-S...id=1309261431&sr=1-1
Note you'd only get 1 TB of storage as both drives are copies of each other. Cheaper than data recovery on a crashed drive.
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
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"Every artist, was once an amateur"
I use external drives, incremental backups nightly, and often take the backup drives with me if I'm away from home for a long time.. they pop in and out easily.. I consider this old house a fire risk and the neighborhood a potential theft zone..
Dave Speicher
I thought I wanted a career.. turns out I only wanted paychecks.
dlspeicher.zenfolio.com
Right now, it's the "portable 40GB", a 200 and a 500 (in the safe). Plan to upgrade to a 1 or 2 TB as my final secure drive. Unless you want to go the online route, a bank safe deposit box would be a good place for your "secure" drive.DestinDave wrote: Wow, John.. do you have any information on those "eternal drives"?
I use external drives, incremental backups nightly, and often take the backup drives with me if I'm away from home for a long time.. they pop in and out easily.. I consider this old house a fire risk and the neighborhood a potential theft zone..
I do not format my cards until I have the shots on at least two sources (laptop and one eternal).
Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
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