So.. Have you backed up all of your 2006 pictures?

[Hogleg 44]

What a relief.....I got em all tucked away on DVD's, duplicated, and ready to export to another location!

[Daniel Bates]

They're on an external HD. And that's as far as they're getting... hehe

[Silvernic]

I took mine off of the CF cards and put them onto my hard drive!

[tjavery]

I'm pretty quick to back up my stuff in triplicate (HD, backup HD, & DVD) before I format my cards. I was happy with my system until I read this article

Sometimes people make it sound like computer storage media is just slightly more permanent than keeping your personal notes written on the surface of a dusty car

[JPalmer]

I got a sweet DVD burner for Christmas this year....something I've needed for at home, we have one at the office for work file photos, but i haven't been able to adequately back up photos from my external HD at home.

This DVD burner can do those sweet double-layer DVDs as well, so I might give that a shot.

[Hogleg 44]

Originally Posted by tjavery

I'm pretty quick to back up my stuff in triplicate (HD, backup HD, & DVD) before I format my cards. I was happy with my system until I read this article

Sometimes people make it sound like computer storage media is just slightly more permanent than keeping your personal notes written on the surface of a dusty car

Interestingly, TY DVD's are what I have been using for a couple of years now. However, I have a CDR that I burned with music in 1999 that plays faithfully every day in my car player. And it is not considered to be especially high quality media. So who knows how long it will last. How can they give it an xyz year longevity rating when the stuff hasn't been around that long in the REAL world? Often the Educated guesses seem to be shorter lived than their subject matter.

[bburton]

Funny you should start this thread tonight, Paul, I just spent two hours recovering from my first hard drive failure in almost four years.

However, after the last one, I started to take precautions:

(1.) Keeping all documents, files and photos on a second internal hard drive, not on the drive with the WinXp OS.

(2.) Using Acronis True Image to create regularly an Image of the hard drive with the OS on it to an external backup drive connected through USB.

(3.) Using MS SyncToy to duplicate regularly all files, documents and photos on the second internal hard drive also onto the external USB backup drive.

It paid off: even though I had not backed up the operating system drive (the one that failed) for four weeks, I lost very little -- a few new programs which can be installed, browser bookmarks, etc. and back up and running very quickly.

The moral to the story. Backup and backup frequently.

[Lax]

1 hd --> 2 hd --> 500G external which then goes in the fire safe.

The 500G also contain a photo and video inventory of the $$$$ items in the house. Along with scanned documents for backups.

[markfh]

mirrored 1TB --> external 500GB drives rotated backed up weekly or thereabouts ->> remote 1TB server backing up delta nightly. I back up the image after program installs and that gets backed up remotely.

Just an fyi your fire safe will not protect most objects in it from the heat of a fire. Think oven... Take that external drive off-site.

[mobilezen]

I backup my pics on my WD MyBook and DVDs...never hurts to have doubles.

[PEC]

has anyone used backups on the net? I have seen services that will provide remote storage for a nominal monthly fee but have never used it.

[Hogleg 44]

Originally Posted by PEC

has anyone used backups on the net? I have seen services that will provide remote storage for a nominal monthly fee but have never used it.

The Photo Sharing site I use does just this. http://Phanfare.com Unlimited storage of full size images, and teriffic support via phone, email and their own forum.