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[...] There are many things that can happen to your computer: a hard drive could fail, malware could remove or modify the data, or even someone could hack into your computer and steal/delete your data. While you can take security precautions to prevent some of the above, it is still important to take measures to keep your data safe. [...]
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Wow – what a coincidence! We are also archiving photos – my husband’s grandfather was a professional photographer. We have pictures of family, WWII, as well as some really great pictures from his days on the Cleveland police force. For data storage, we are doing exactly the same thing (including Mozy and the TY DVDs).
Our biggest concern at this point is the method for storing the actual photos. We have regular photos, slides, and even the really old glass plates…
I don’t think the method is overkill at all. There is no price tag that you can put on family memories.
nice
I bought an External Harddrive to backup my Harddrive, but it took too long to copy all files
and it lagged my computer badly lol
Backing up on DVD is something I haven’t been doing but should be. It’s cheap, easy, and effective.
What do you mean by “off site”?
@moneyloveandchange: Wow a professional photographer. Must have some great photos, that can be preserved for generations to come. Fantastic!
@Nathan: I’m sorry you had some problems with an external hard drive. I haven’t had any with mine, and the transfer speed has been great. What brand of hard drive did/do you have?
@Thomas: By offsite I mean at a place far from my desktop/hard drives. I usually take my DVDs to my parent’s and inlaw’s houses. This way if something happened to my house, and I lose my external hard drive, I still have my data on the DVDs.
First Thanks for the entrecard drop. I have a couple of things I do when archiving photos.
1) If I have the negative that is always scanned at the best resolution in addition to the actual photo. People want to remember how the photo looked on the wall, not just how perfect we can make it look. I store these as photoshop files and make sure I keep a duplicate of my old PS and OS version so I or whoever comes after me can open those files.
2) I put everything on multiple DVD and hand them out to family members. I make a duplicate set of of all my disks about every two years and hand them out to a new family member.
3)I load my old hard drives with high resolution jpeg of all my finished work. I have a removable drive caddy that will let me easily access any drive in a safer cooler environment than most external USB cases since these caddies have 2 fans and receive the benefit of my case fans.
4) Flickr. My SIL uploads all the archived photos to her Flickr pro account
I’m just rethinking the backing up of my photos and anything else that’s important, because I too bought an external hard drive specifically for daily backing up of the system (PC and laptop).
After backing up all the photo images from PC, I deleted the originals from the hard drive to free-up some disk space. Unfortunately, this was really dumb cos I didn’t have a back-up of the back-up system and the external hard drive blew up, and I’m now in the process of finding out if the data can be retrieved! Doh!
Sometimes it’s a wind-up however much you try to cover your arse, if you’re in the line of fire…..
@Brad: It sounds like you have a good process for backing up your data.
@Layne: I hope you can recover your data. I know how frustrating that can be. That is the reason I always make multiple copies of my data.
It’s certainly is important to back up your digital photographs. I learned this from experience. We backed up a lot of our photos in an external hard disk drive and it was ok.
I then also made a copy on CD for some of my favourite photos…and luckily I did do this. Our external hard disk drive got corrupted and we are still trying to work out if we can salvage our photos.
Great post….I just recently purchased a Western Digital Mirror Edition external hard drive. That should hopefully avoid any type of corruption or failure that can happen with a regular external backup.
I just started using Mozy. It is awesome. Reliable and reasonably priced. I encourage everyone to check it out.