Backing Up Your Photos The Best way .

12 years 8 months ago #127078 by johnlem
What is the best way to Back up your Photos and sizes ????????
Please describ how its done .


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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #127082 by MLKstudios
NAS and RAID. Networked Area Storage and Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

That means something with more than one hard drive in it, that mirrors the others. So, you always have at least two drives with the same data on them. If one goes bad, you're safe. It's much cheaper than software retrieval -- rescuing a dead HDD.

Off site storage is another option sometimes called a Cloud. That protects you from earthquakes, fires and etc. Can be used with the method above.

Keep your originals. RAW or DNG if possible. You may want to go back and re-edit someday.

HTH

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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12 years 8 months ago #127083 by Screamin Scott
Back up to either an external hard drive or an online storage site at the photo's full resolution. External drives come with software that you specify what files you want to back up & online sites do basically the same.

Scott Ditzel Photography

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12 years 8 months ago #127090 by Joves

Screamin Scott wrote: Back up to either an external hard drive or an online storage site at the photo's full resolution. External drives come with software that you specify what files you want to back up & online sites do basically the same.

:agree:
I use my external drive and then store it in a Fireproof Safe that is rated for electronics. If you cant afford one of those then you can find a place to keep it off site. Fire is the one thing I worry about when it comes to photos because I lost over 20 years of them in one at a storage unit. I dont use the Cloud stuff personally, I dont like the idea of my files being on someone elses main frames. RAID is good for having the back up in case the primary drive dies on you. External drives are cheap now so backing up is easy.


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12 years 8 months ago #127116 by Maria21
I personally don't trust putting my photos on an online site for a several reasons. 1) I don't have direct control of them 2) You don't know if they can hacked & stolen 3) Not being able to organize them the way i want. I do use an external Hd along with CD back-ups. My CD's are by session...the external HD is by date. My flash drives are the RAW images.

Zerfing's Photographic Imaging
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12 years 8 months ago #127245 by johnlem
:judge: Thank you all this will help me alot , as I am trying to find the best way and ezest .
I have 4 ex drives (seagates ) as i just need to figer out a plan of attak as for as file types and who what and where . and yall came tough with that for me . thank you all agine .


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12 years 8 months ago #127255 by MLKstudios
Welcome. Just saw new 2TB drives going for $60. No reason not to have plenty of HD storage.

:)

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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12 years 8 months ago #127552 by Prago
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12 years 8 months ago #127676 by The Equalizer
I keep mine stored on Western Digital external hard drive

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." Ansel Adams.
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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #128015 by MLKstudios
^ Mirror it (RAID 0). Drives are cheap. Drive recovery is expensive.

:)

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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12 years 8 months ago #128192 by johnlem
Do you Keep your Raw on one HD and jpgs on another , and Tiff's on another . Or do you keep RAW,Jpg, Tiff for one Photo all together ??????


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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #128195 by MLKstudios
I have a four drive drobo (with 6TB total), and the files are all mixed together. Lightroom organizes them for me.

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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12 years 8 months ago #128196 by johnlem
thats what I use is light room


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12 years 8 months ago #128200 by johnlem
:judge: whats good about the one you use it sees it as one drive . if you have a 4 bay system can you take one out and put it off and then plug it in when you want to update that one HD then take it back out and put it off some place else


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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #128201 by MLKstudios
The drives all work together. Parts of files are on different ones (and redundant).

However, I could replace all the 1.5 TB's with 2 TB's when I need to. One at a time.

:)

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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