Ice, #285 (Hanging Gardens). Boulder Creek, Colorado, 2016
If you procrastinate, like me, it has been way too long (an entire Ice Age!) since you have backed up your digital photo files. Am I right or am I right or am I right?
In an ideal fantasy world, many photographers might advocate something similar to this:
–Back up all images on a weekly, or at least monthly, basis. If you have just shot an important event or just captured and created once-in-a-lifetime landscapes, back up immediately after the shoot.
–In addition to having your images readily accessible on your desktop hard drive, back them up on at least two other separate drives as well.
–Seriously consider keeping one backup drive off-site in case of natural disaster or theft.
–Also consider keeping your extra special images and important portfolios on separate DVDs or on additional, smaller, portable hard drives.
–Label everything accurately.
Do I do all of this? Well…uh…can’t really say as I do. But I try! I really do!
I have all of my images duplicated on two separate portable drives–just finished my end o’ year update. I keep more recent images I might need on my desktop computer hard drive as well.
Yes, the end o’ the year (Happy New Year!) is certainly a good time to make sure everything is organized and backed up.
There really isn’t much excuse to not do this when you can pick up a 5TB Seagate Desktop External Hard Drive for around 135 buckaroos at Costco or Amazon.
May the year 2017 not be a disaster–for you personally, for your digitally-archived photographs…and, yes, for our country and the entire spaceship Earth as well.
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