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How often do you back-up your photo's

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Old 02-01-06, 02:39
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Backup files? Oh my. I've never contemplated losing all my images before
Maybe I should think about getting a CD burner or something and saving all my stuff to that?
What is the cheapest way of doing this anyway? Is it to buy a cd burner or is there another way? My computer is quite old and doesn't run fast at the best of times (Windows 98SE) so maybe saving my images elsewhere would free up some disk space!!!!
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There seems to be varying opinions as to whether CD or DVD has the best longevity (do a search on google). I have had corrupted CDs and DVDs, and over a 40 year career I lost 13 hard drives but much of the data on those hard drives was recoverablle so I would always go for hard drive, doesn't really matter whether internal of external, but if your pictures matter please do something there's nothing worse than losing images, worst of all are those family shots that mean so much
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I did not attend that many last year actualy. But when i do go i will take 100s of photos. Just to be sure i get some good ones. I will often fill a 512 mb card and almost fill my 128mb card in 1 airshows worth of flying.
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At the end of year show at Duxford I filled my 2gb and a little under 1/2 of a 1gb. So you're not on your own regarding taking lots of photo's/
A slit second when shooting fast movers can make or break a photo.
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I used to back up to CD and then delete the images from my hard drive to free up space. What I didn’t think of is that the CD was then not really a back up – being the only copy and CDs can fail, as I have found out to my cost losing over 600 images

My set up now is with 2 internal hard drives and an external one. I have my OS on C: and my images on D: and back up to the ext HD. What I keep meaning to do and this will be my 2006 resolution, is to take the external drive off site. I’m going to keep it at work and just bring it home overnight, say once/month to update my back up.

At the moment my ext HD sits on top of my system unit, so if some one broke in and stole my PC, or heaven forbid, there was a fire …. it doesn’t bear thinking about

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Thanks everyone for the advice.. I think I should seriously consider getting an external Hard drive, now all I've got to do is find one!! Google here I come!
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At the end of year show at Duxford I filled my 2gb and a little under 1/2 of a 1gb. So you're not on your own regarding taking lots of photo's/
A slit second when shooting fast movers can make or break a photo.
Your image files are proberably larger than mine. Mine are about 500k.
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Old 02-01-06, 21:13
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Yes you are quite correct Ollie, approx 160 images per Gb
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As i have said elsewhere i plan to ungrade my camera so my photos will be more than 500k.
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I use one of these (http://www.xsdrive2xl.com)for backup.

It is essentially an external USB hard drive but you can also use these in the field to copy your cards on to so you never run short of card space.
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I use one of these (http://www.xsdrive2xl.com)for backup.

It is essentially an external USB hard drive but you can also use these in the field to copy your cards on to so you never run short of card space.
What are they like to use? I am going to get soomething like that for my gap year for image storage.
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What are they like to use? I am going to get soomething like that for my gap year for image storage.
I also use a similar 20 gig harddrive and find them to be ok + when away I take my laptop.

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