How do you back up?

[Bill UIthoven]

Wondering the best way to back up all of my photos?
What does everybody else do?

Thanks

[Robert Price]

Well I use a double redundant raid setup to do back ups. Client photos are only kept for 5 years as I state in their contracts. One back up drive is plugged into my network the other is kept off line and only brought online every week to make a back up of a backup.

[rkord4]

I back all my originals immediately on my external hard drive (terabyte hard drive). Also all originals will go on a cd.

As I edit my images, I replace the originals on my hard drive. So all the images on the hard drive are edited (eventually) and if anything happens, I will have my originals on cd.

If I ever have a session that had alot of editing for whatever reason...I always back that edited session on cd also. If something happened to my hard drive, I wouldn't have to re-edit that session all over again.

[LivingCreationPhotography]

Originally Posted by Bill UIthoven

Wondering the best way to back up all of my photos?
What does everybody else do?

Thanks

I use an external hard drive to make a second copy then also burn a DVD of the shoot.

Zak

[InnerVisionImages]

I use two pieces of software to handle my data management. The first is Downloader Pro. During the process of downloading images from cards it make two copies of the images. One copy is on an external drive which serves as my work in progress. The second copy is made on one of four 1TB internal system drives.

Each night at 11:55 pm the second piece of software, Bounce Back Pro begins the process of backing up all 4 of the 1 TB drives to a 2TB removeable drive. Yes, I know that 4 1TB drives will not fit on a 2TB drive. The one's never get that full.

Each morning, we switch the 2 TB drive with another that's stored in the fire safe. At worst, we lose one days worth of data.

[Char]

First, I still don't do enough professional work that my system needs changing. One of these days I'm going to have to re-read this thread and move up in the world.
I leave the raw files on the SD card after putting them on my hard drive. I then make the "obvious" pp, and convert to jpg. Then I put them on a disk, and upload them to my web storage. I'm always fearful of keeping all my data in one place (cd, harddrive). If there was a fire... sheesh... Once I am done with all my edits, and have made the "proofs" disk, and another backup cd(with edits) I am g2g to erase my flash drive.

[marie]

I back up my original files to CD or DVD immediately after downloading. After an order is edited and completed, it also gets backed up to CD or DVD. After 60 days of inactivity, it is then deleted from my hard drive and the discs are archived with the client information.

[michael-k]

I put the car in R for reverse and look both ways, before I back up.

Michael-k

[Bill UIthoven]

Originally Posted by Char

First, I still don't do enough professional work that my system needs changing. One of these days I'm going to have to re-read this thread and move up in the world.
I leave the raw files on the SD card after putting them on my hard drive. I then make the "obvious" pp, and convert to jpg. Then I put them on a disk, and upload them to my web storage. I'm always fearful of keeping all my data in one place (cd, harddrive). If there was a fire... sheesh... Once I am done with all my edits, and have made the "proofs" disk, and another backup cd(with edits) I am g2g to erase my flash drive.

What web storage are you using?

[Bill UIthoven]

Originally Posted by michael-k

I put the car in R for reverse and look both ways, before I back up.

Michael-k

Have you ever lost any Data with that system?
It sounds so old school with all this new technology!

But that was part of my question
Even though there is all this new stuff how far do we really need to go?