 Pam Elliott |
Backup and workflow of images Hello! I have all of my images on my laptop and on 1 1TB external hard drive as a backup. My laptop is now too full to work and I need to get those images off of the computer - I'm scared to delete them even though I have them backed up onto the 1TB hard drive. What do others do? Should I buy one more 1TB hard drive and back up to that as well so I have 2 hard drives with my images in case one breaks down? I'm at a loss for keeping up with all the images, storing and workflow to keep everything updated and backed up safely so I can free up my laptop. Any suggestions/help would be appreciated! :-) Thank you! Pam
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Bob Cammarata |
I store my originals straight out of the camera on an external hard drive and back them up on 4 GB DVD discs. (Each disc holds around 120-125 large TIFF files.) The processed/resized versions of each photo are kept on my P/C until I've finished doing what I want with them (i.e., e-mailing a few, uploading to my website, etc.)
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Pam, I have learned a few very painful lessons over the years with lost images from corrupt CF cards, hard drive failures, etc.. and now that you can get 1TB hard drives for about $100, I keep 2 drives with my photos at all times. My workflow is as follows: I download my 4GB CF card using Adobe Photo Downloader and specify the folder on the hard drive and create the name for the files and then I also select "save copies to" at the bottom and specify a different drive and then download the images. I use a Firewire 800 connection & Iomega Mini-max hard drives and it takes about 6 minutes to download a 4gb card to 2 drives at the same time. I then grab that CF card and burn it to DVD (as Bob mentioned - they fit perfectly at 4GB)... I even keep a set of DVDs at a friends house in case of fire at my house. Get another hardf drive and a stack of DVDs :) Cheers, Carlton
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Randy A. Myers |
Hi Pam. I burn DVD's of the orinal captures. I have two backup hard drives daisy chained to the computer. One backs up the computer and the other backup copies the the first back up. All I have to do is check the second backup files and if they are fine, then I know the first backup is good. I learned my lesson when I had the computers hard drive crash and two days later the one backup drive also went down. That's why I do double drives.
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Monnie Ryan |
Here's my routine: First, I download the photos to my PC. Immediately, I copy them to my portable hard drive (a 500GB Western Digital) as well. At the end of each year (if not sooner), I burn all the photos from that year to DVDs. Then, I double-check to make sure everything is on the portable hard drive. When I start running low on space on the PC, I can delete without worrying about losing the older stuff -- they're on both the portable hard drive and DVDs. It's a system that's worked for me for several years now. Also, I have a primary photo gallery Web site (paid) where I can upload an unlimited number in the original size. I put my best edited ones here, too, and can download them that way if necessary.
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Pam Elliott |
Wow everyone - great info! Thanks for letting me know.. this does help clarify what I need to get and do. I also heard that Lightroom is good in keeping records and getting all the photos organized as well.. I think I'll get that and an extra hard drive and I'll be good to go! (I already have DVDs around the house - and will use those to back up as well) Thanks again! Pam
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