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If you can’t find another location, at least get fire-proof safe and place it in a different location in your home.Īlso, software can be buggy, crash or even flat out break don’t trust one piece of software. It could be at work, or a safety deposit box, or even at a friends house. Keep a hard-drive in a second or even a third location. Things happen that you can’t expect: a fire (this just happened to a co-worker), a robbery, water damage, all sorts of things can happen. Keep Your Photos Backed Up in Multiple Locations.Hard-drives are cheap (you can get a 4 terabyte hard-drive for $130 as of May 2015) so there’s no reason not to have multiple copies of your photos. Hard-drives fail, bytes get corrupted, data gets lost. Keep your Photos Backed Up on Multiple Drives.I built off their experiences and eventually arrived at an easy … and cheap … solution to keep my photos safe. Over a series of several days I gleaned as much information from several other co-workers. Working at SmugMug means I’m around some of the smartest photographers I know, and they were able to point me in the right direction. My system for backing up my photos had been flawed: I made a few copies of my photos and kept them in one location. You’re stupid if you aren’t backing up your photos and up until now, I’ve been stupid. What good is this memory if you lose it? I have photos of my friends, my family, of the places I’ve visited I also have a massive landscape photography hobby that’s resulted in a collection of several terabytes of photos. You want to remember a person, a moment, a place, a feeling. We take photos for a number of reasons but the root of it is to remember. The number of photos we take each day is staggering… in fact it’s estimated that over 1 trillion photos will be taken this year. I don’t mean just putting them on a hard-drive and calling it good. It’s just plain stupid if you aren’t backing up your photos.
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