angel97701
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Post by angel97701 on Jul 15, 2014 1:14:28 GMT
Lain over at layoutaday has a short video that highlights several ways to back up your photos. Her first choice is Picture Keeper. When I went to look at the size of my photos I have 76.34 GB!  What options have you used? I have many years backed up on CD's. But this choice seems to be good. However I would have to go with the software and use my own devices? Hum? It is soooooooooo time consuming to back-up to discs and not to mention they don't fit in my fire safe with the other important papers. Suggestions that are both quick and easy and not too expensive? |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Jul 15, 2014 1:29:42 GMT
I use an external hard drive for back up. All my photos are on both my computers + the external hard drive. Chances are all three will not fail at the same time. I think sorting my digital pictures will be a retirement project for me. I have tens of thousands already.
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pamp
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Post by pamp on Jul 15, 2014 1:48:58 GMT
External hard drive works for me,so far.
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Post by redshoes on Jul 15, 2014 2:07:18 GMT
EHD for me as well. Just recently, I bought a few flash drives to have an extra backup so I can free up space on my computer. It will be easy enough to keep the flash drives in the fireproof safe rather than the EHD.
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 15, 2014 2:12:54 GMT
External Hard Drive. I have a few. I drop one in my safety deposit box about once a year. I wouldn't have everything - but most.
I also have a video of my house. I just walk through and open cabinets, etc. Just in case, for insurance purposes.
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 15, 2014 2:39:06 GMT
LOL - I just checked the size of my Pictures folder - I have you beat. 276 GB! Dang!
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Post by originalvanillabean on Jul 15, 2014 2:40:31 GMT
EHD here too
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Post by GiantsFan on Jul 15, 2014 2:50:16 GMT
I have my laptop, an EHD and a backup drive. I do a backup at least once a month or when I download lots of photos or when I've done lots of pages (digi scrapping). The backup drive resides at my parents house, in case my house burns down or is robbed. And the EHD I keep in my office at work.
My sister thinks I'm crazy for doing this and "have created a monster" because I took my backup drive to my parents house and now my Dad backs up his photos.
ETA: I just checked 'My Pictures' and I have 14,700 items and 32.4 GB.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 15, 2014 3:28:40 GMT
I have mine backed up in multiple ways. They are on my computer, on an external drive, on CDs or DVDs and I just bought a PictureKeeper that will hold 250,000 photos when Archiver's closed. I also have many of the photos I've printed backed up at Costco where I have them printed.
I recently talked to DH's new computer guy though and he said that regular CDs and DVDs will start to degrade within about ten years and all hard drives can fail or lose data especially if they aren't regularly used. Anything with moving parts is subject to wear and tear. His advice was to use gold CDs or DVDs because they won't degrade, and also to use a cloud based system to have the most security. If your photos mean a lot to you, it's worth the expense for the peace of mind. I need to do that for all of my thousands of cutting files too. They are backed up, but I think I need to have them backed up somewhere offsite too just in case.
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Post by anniefb on Jul 15, 2014 9:20:43 GMT
I have multiple backups. I have a Mac so what I'm working on is on my laptop and is backed up automatically to an EHD with Time Machine, then I also put all my photos on Dropbox and a lot are also on Flickr. I also have a separate EHD and every few months I do a backup there with Carbon Copy Cloner. I think the best idea is to have at least a couple of backups as things can fail.
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Post by scrapnnana on Jul 15, 2014 10:58:45 GMT
Another vote for external hard drive, only I use multiple ones, because I have had EHD fail. I have also had one CD go bad. I have multiple back ups now.
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Post by ScrappyJac on Jul 15, 2014 13:39:15 GMT
I would highly recommend doing an online/cloud backup set to run automatically. I used to just use external hard drives. However, that was dependent on me remembering to back-up every month. I signed up with CrashPlan and now the back-up runs automatically in the background. The cost is inexpensive and it is well worth the piece of mind. Plus, if there is a fire or other natural disaster, I now have storage off site.
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Post by titancia on Jul 15, 2014 17:50:24 GMT
I have mine stored on an external harddrive, and I plan to burn them to CD's and plan to back them up on a 2nd harddrive soon. I even have some favorites, like my trip to England, stored on a separate flash drive. Just in case.  I also upload my favorites to Flickr--unfortunately, not ALL my photos are there, but I am trying very hard to get organized and that includes putting them on Flickr! |
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 15, 2014 17:55:22 GMT
I have a very limited amount of data usage per month (10GB) so any cloud based storage is out for me.  |
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Post by ahiller on Jul 15, 2014 19:04:54 GMT
I use Backblaze. It's $5 a month and I have over 100GB backed up with them. I have them back up my external hard drive which I use as my time machine for my Mac.
Seriously, peace of mind for $5 a month? Can't beat it.
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Post by titancia on Jul 16, 2014 14:54:41 GMT
Flickr isn't a normal cloud based back up, but they give 1 TB free (Yahoo bought them), although you can subscribe if you want to get rid of ads. I've been on it for years and never had an issue.
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Post by LovMelrose on Jul 16, 2014 16:31:04 GMT
EHD here too. Plus I have all I ordered stored on the Walgreens site. |
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