Backing up your photos

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Ok, I have just bought a lacie rugged hard drive to back up my photos. I am slightly confused what to do. I run Elements 7 which asks me if i want to back up, Will this also back up my exported jpegs or do you generally have to back up twice ie elements raw files and your jpegs in windows?
 
I copy my photos across to the computer from the card reader, then from there to 2 external hard drives (dual back-up) then as a last resort I back up to good quality archival DVD (stored off site) all weddings are also backed up again at a different location just in case, you can't afford to loose something important like that.
It might sound a bit over the top, but I personally know 2 people who have lost all their work by not having back-ups, and I'm not taking the risk.
Remember all hard drives will fail at some point, it could be 20 years away.... or tomorrow!
 
Back mine up onto an external hard drive. Soon to be investing in a Blu-ray writer, 25GB each disc!!! lovely jubbly!!
 
The lacie drive is fantaastic...And orange too!!!
Have worked it out, You don't need to back up in elements, Just my folders in my c drive as it already has the raw image, The raw eited image and the exported j peg.
Christ didn't know in this day and age we have to be Bill bloody Gates :thinking:
 
Dave450 said:
Back mine up onto an external hard drive. Soon to be investing in a Blu-ray writer, 25GB each disc!!! lovely jubbly!!
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This does look like a possible good back-up system, I believe the dual layer will do 50gb? Especially when prices drop.
 
swanseamale47 said:
This does look like a possible good back-up system, I believe the dual layer will do 50gb? Especially when prices drop.
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means I can save alot more RAW files than I currently do. Planning to upgrade to the 7D in the coming months, can see many RAW\TIFF files fitting onto DVD with that camera!!
 
So, do you back up the files as they are on your C: drive, or do you use a utility that saves them as a backup file that does so automatically in real-time in the background, but requires you to recover the files, should you ever need to, using the same utility's recover files utility? I'm guessing the auto routine may introduce compression? But it does mean that you are backed up to the second not the last time you backed them up yourself.
I'd be interested to know your thoughts?

I went the 'let it back itself up' route (using the WD anywhere backup utility that came with the WD 1TB drive), but I also back up each shoot to DVD as a 2nd failsafe.
 
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