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What I am looking to do is back up my Sd card whilst on the go to a device that can then connect to a computer if something happens to the sd card.

Can anyone give me an idea of what I'm after, how many pics I could get onto it and an idea of price?

I'm attempting to look online but it's not the same as asking the opinions of those who already have similar.
 
Yes like that :)

So how do you back up your photos?

I know many people who it had never happened to but can't help but think recently as I haven't been getting pictures off sd card for weeks that i would be the one it could happen to!
 
Plenty of netbooks and some tablets have SD card readers built in. Dead easy to dump cards onto one of them then upload back to a card (or USB stick) for transfer to a desktop/laptop etc. I also have an external HDD and optical disk writer for even more belt and braces as well as a USB multi card reader for other formats (my DSLRs and one of my compacts use CF cards).
 
I've not tried the one listed there on amazon, but I bought cheaper devices for maybe £10-£20 that allowed you to copy from one to another; personally I found them rubbish, slow and unreliable at best.

Last few years I've been taking a netbook (~£200) and dump everything onto the drive and normally another card (Kingston backup, SanDisk extreme pro for taking photos). Just invested in a Asus tablet though so hoping that makes things easier as it's a lot more portable. Also allows reviewing of photos of course.

Most tablets have SD adapters available, even iPads though in this case I think they tend to be problematic as you have to always dump everything, it's not incremental due to Apple restrictions.
 
I shoot to my cards, come home and the put on the pc, where they get backed up to several locations.
I don't have the need to back up out shooting. Even if I'm out for days or weeks
 
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