Backup your backup

AnCatDubh

Just saw this on Computers forum which links to a lifehacker article.

I know some have gone to extraordinary lengths with all kinds of RAID arrays and the like, but I haven't come to the ideal solution as yet. I've my photos spread over a number of drives so if one goes i'll be very annoyed but not devastated.

So, when was the last time YOU backed up your photos.

All the better reason to print your photos, and do so often.

(this was just a timely reminder to everyone of the game of russian roulette which we play with technology every day and not just for photography).

magicbastarder

i have committed all my photos to memory and have an agreement with an artist i know that he will draw them for me, based on my verbal description, should my backup fail.

lordRothery

For me flickr pro is enough .....

The really important raws I have on Hard Drive plus 2 external ones .

Borderfox

Drobo with 8gb, online backup and regular backups to offsite location (hollowed out volcano)

Corkbah

16TB on multiple hard drives (some on DVD's and CD's) ….and expanding !!

my database only goes back as far as 2005 though - had a crash back then and lost everything - despite paying nearly €3K to a recovery company - who probably only ran some free software.

sumo12

Hard drive backup on the desk beside me for the RAW files. Time machine backup to a different hard drive of the edited photos on the Mac. Edited JPEGS backed up to LiveDrive (unlimited cloud storage about €80 p.a.)

Surely to jaysis I'll have something left after the fire/burglary/technological apocalypse....?

magicbastarder

Corkbah wrote: »

16TB on multiple hard drives (some on DVD's and CD's) ….and expanding !!

my entire collection of photos takes up less than 250GB - and that's nearly 20 years worth of photos!

Effects

I have a mate that seems to think the more hard drives he takes up with images the better a photographer he is.