Time to back up!

[pernod]

Just a friendly reminder...

Now is probably a good time to do a backup of 2010 if you haven't already :-)

[Scraggles]

got a 2 TB drive and took me about 10 hours to back up the windows pc and most of today and yesterday moving files across 2 linux drives swapping the boot and slave over lots
the external drive is not turned on until needed

[ian in lancs]

Yep! I back up whenever i download a shoot. I run two 1TB drives for my photos - main and backup and rotate the backup drive with another one every couple of months and kept off site.

[y2blade]

I back-up mine (onto the Seagate) pretty much the same day I shoot

[dibbly dobbler]

Good call - I haven't done one for at least 6 months

[AndWhyNot]

My Christmas list was all about function this year. In addition to the Peli case into which I've just swapped all most of my gear (shoulda got a bigger one) I also got a pair of 1tb external drives which are currently being christened to replace my current setup of 500gb drive & DVD.

[PlaneFan]

Excellent reminder. Have about 30,000 images from 2010.

Thanks :-)

[xrrr]

Good plan. As well as copying to a NAS I also subscribed to backblaze.com last year. It does a trickle upload to the internet cloud of your entire HDD. It is good but even on my 8 meg ADSL the RAW files do get a little queued up - if there is something I *really* want protected I just leave my PC on constantly for a few days/nights and it automatically goes to sleep when the backup is complete.

[Simpo Two]

xrrr said:

It is good but even on my 8 meg ADSL the RAW files do get a little queued up

It's still 250Kb upload though isn't it? 8Mb is the download... hence the A in ADSL meaning Asynchronous I believe.

[JJM]

Cheers for the reminder.

Yesterday picked up a 1TB drive from PC world for £49 and back up all my pics. Had been meaning to do it for months.

[Killwilly]

I am thinking of getting a 500gb portable hard drive to store photographs. Can anyone tell me how many raw pics I should be able to store on this?

[Killwilly]

JJM said:

Cheers for the reminder.

Yesterday picked up a 1TB drive from PC world for £49 and back up all my pics. Had been meaning to do it for months.

What make is this one from PC world?

[ian in lancs]

Killwilly said:

I am thinking of getting a 500gb portable hard drive to store photographs. Can anyone tell me how many raw pics I should be able to store on this?

depends on the size of the raw files and I suspect you'll edit some and create some Jpegs and PSD's.

As a guide the average file size on my backup drive is 8MB so 80% of a 500GB drive would contain circa 62 thousand files. In my case that's about two year's worth of original raw files, PSD edit's and Jpegs...

If they are all raw files circa 16MB each then 30 thousand.

I corrupted a portable drive connecting it to another computer - always have at least one backup. Also I'm told never to allow the library backup file to be on the same drive as the photo's - otherwise you loose everything.

[JJM]

Killwilly said:

JJM said:

Cheers for the reminder.

Yesterday picked up a 1TB drive from PC world for £49 and backed up all my pics. Had been meaning to do it for months.

What make is this one from PC world?

It's a WD Elements drive

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/wd-elements-external...

Now £52 from PC world or £49.99 from Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-D...

[Killwilly]

Thanks guys.

[mojitomax]

all photos on a raid array that automatically backs itself up to an external 2TB USB disk once per week. Simples - unless there's a fire

[pernod]

mojitomax said:

all photos on a raid array that automatically backs itself up to an external 2TB USB disk once per week. Simples - unless there's a fire

I use WD storage drives. A wireless 500gb version which backs up a copy of the 'current' files on my laptop wirelessly and easily as I go

Then about once a month I back up to two other 1GB normal WD Drives, one of which lives at work in case of theft/fire etc.

I figure for about £60 each drive, would I pay that to get the photos back if I lost the lot - too right I would! And given in the last year I've had two drives fail that brings home the reality of how important backups are.