Photo backups

[Stephen Marshall]

Just wanted to point out a little tip we easily forget:




Always remember to make a backup of ALL your photos.

My laptop, which is my image editor 90% of the time and has at least 60% of all my photos just died tonight. Luckily I just finished transferring the last of those photos to my new 1TB drive YESTERDAY. Now I think that the HD is fine and I can salvage some stuff but it just served to remind me, and us hopefully, that it's important to make backups of your data often. You never know when your main system is going to crash for good on you!

I feel quite lucky right now as the photos were the most important thing to me on that laptop. Unfortunately I don't make a habit of backing up all my school work, so I'm hoping to save some of that. 

[Matt Ottosen]

Hmm, sounds familiar!

I finally backed up my hard drive two days ago, I moved over 25,500 files (mostly photos) from my laptop to my external 1TB drive.

Please remember that external hard drives can fail too, the absolute best backup is to burn them to CD.

[Rob Silliman]

Best of both worlds.... Network attached RAID array w/ its own built in Blu-Ray DVD burner....

http://www.frys.com/product/6135599?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

[redsox223]

Not only are my images on my computer, a back drive, I pay 4.95 a month for mozy online backup that has no restrictions (I think at the moment I have 460gigs on there) that can be pulled from any location with an internet connection.

[phantomphan1974]

That reminds me I have to as well.  Power went out and it tweak my setting to my external HD.  BTW Coscto (at least in Cali) has a 1.5TB or 2TB (can't remember) external on coupon starting today for $99.99.  Segate I believe.

[Jay Beckman]

Costco always seems to have screamin' deals on Western Digital "My Book" series drives.

[Stephen Marshall]

Those WD passports/mybooks/ whatever are really nice. I have one myself and used it as my primary photo storage device until I got my 1TB internal HD. Look nice, good weight, and feel rather sturdy to me.

Rob, that's a pretty cool device.. if only I had the money.

On a side note.. Turns out my laptop HD is just fine, just the computer that's buggy. (Probably the motherboard) Does anyone have one of those USB hard drive sleeves? I want to save some of the data and that seems to be the best way to do it.

[cpasley]

You should buy all your drives at Fry's Electronics ,they have the best employees well the one on Thunderbird and not that im partial even though I did sell those things there for almost 5 years 

[jslugman]

I'm using Carbonite for off-site backup, happens automatically when the computer's not active doing something (which isn't often sad to say). $55/yr no limit.