What Progam do you use?

[smoothassilk]

What program do use to backup your pictures? And what media do you use to store them on and why?

[Buddha]

I use 2 hard drives on my computer. Each one has several partitions on it. My 'second' hard drive contains Paint Shop and all of my photos so if Windows craters, my images will be safe.
My primary hard drive is actually where I put my backup photo files, on a different partition from the Windows operating system. That way I can, and have, re-installed the OS without affecting my photos. If one hard drive should ever fail catastrophically, the other serves as it's backup.
To back up my photos, I simply drag and drop one partition to the other.
If you have only one hard drive, I would partition it so you could use the new partitions for backup purposes.

[AndrewCCM]

Multiple locations for me.

Network server in different area of the house, backed up on DVD and on my editing workstation with various USB/Firewire external drives.

I also have dups of my client RAW files on my partners machines at their location.

There are all kinds of freeware apps out there for "syncing" drives and/or backing up. Having something off-site is preferable for disaster recovery though. All the dups in the world are worthless if all in one location and it burns up in a fire.

Hard drives and external enclosures are cheap these days. I recommend using them and DVD/CDs for simple redundant backup options.

[Tom]

Everything on my smugmug, my other website, on DVDs and my two externals.

Don't need any software. Drag and drop.

[Wil_Bloodworth]

I just back everything up on DVD.

- Wil

[engstrom]

I have two copies of my pics. One on the computer's internal hard drive and one on an external drive backed up with Time Machine. I'm waiting for a good clone tool to be made available for Leopard so I can copy my backup drive to another external and store it at work. Nothing like a lightning strike to destroy all your magnetic media.

[loana0320]

DVD... which I need to burn the past two months LOL

[LoungeLizard]

I use Microsoft's SyncToy for my backup. I backup to two external hard drives. One is kept at my office, the other off site.

[dbphotos]

Since I had a crash last year (arrrrgh!) I use my computer HD, backup HD and 2 DVD's of all images. I use NERO on Windows and make a burn disk file on the MAC. I copy to the b/u HD with a drag and drop.

[Bella]

I'm with the drag and drop crowd . . .my husband (who is a sys admin by trade) backs up all of our data every night to an external hard drive, plus I burn copies onto either CD or DVD, depending on how much I have to put on one disc.

-Cindy

[J Eddington]

I don't use any software to do my backups. I have two external hard drives and burn to DVD.

[haraki74]

I use SyncToy also. It's one of those "freebies" from Microsoft. Main images on working hard drive, then sync to back-up computer, then to DVD.

[cwford]

Take a look at SuperDuper! for duping a Mac drive... works great but costs about $30

[adirty1]

copied to the raid5 then burned to dvds and backed up to extra drive.