What do you do with your archives?

FreeloaderJoe

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Do you keep all your photos. I know harddrives are getting cheaper, but are you going to look at all of those 1000's of test shots ever again. I have 6000 raw+mirror JPEG images from travelling and it takes up a load of space. I have a final cut of over 500...shall i just brutally obliterate the other 5500?
 
I have a 1TB drive which cost me under £70. It has nearly 140,000 raw+jpgs + other jpgs occupying 740gb. I delete the technically flawed and obvious crap and keep the rest. I rarely delete pictures with family/friends on unless unviewable.

And yes, they are all backed up on to other drives and discs.
 
I currently have my files backed up in 3 places
1x 500Gb internal
1x 500Gb external
2x500Gb striped raid network attached.

Recently I have been reviwing all my old files and I am deleting all the 'howlers' and everything else stays. So if it is out of focus, very poor cropping, exposure blown then it goes. Otherwise it stays.
 
I'm currently running:

2x500gb sata drives in RAID
1x320gb external drive
1X500gb external drive
1TB drive which gets periodically backed with stuff from above and then switched off and stored elsewhere.

HTH

Cheers
Darren
 
I delete anything that i've deemed not processable, and by that, i mean non inspiring, and poo shots. The pics i like, i process, and keep those files. The other ones get deleted.

And i have a few HDDs.
 
I use an external HD's to keep my original images on and these are backed up onto another HD. Plus a DVD backup.

Yes drives are getting cheaper by the day, but every now and again I go back over the archives to re evaluate what I am keeping. It's funny how many near duplicates you find.

As I shoot RAW I tend to convert to DNG as this can reduce the file size by about 20% in many cases.

If you have drives with off line archives it's a good idea to run them up now and again to make sure they are in top notch condition.
 
Every shot I import into Lightroom is backed up on external drives, hen every so often I have a spring clean of Lightroom and get rid of any shots I've not used/can't see myself using, as I know I've always got the raw file stashed away somewhere.
 
I`ve kept all the stuff I`ve taken over the years, it`s backed up in three different places as well.

Like Richard above, I too have been reviewing what I`ve kept and my criteria for a keeper has definitely changed. Some of the stuff that I`ve kept in the past now goes straight in the bin, it doesn`t get a second glance. I`m looking at that like a good thing!
 
I have a 320GB External HD that has everything on it. And I also back everything up to DVD when I transfer to the 320GB HD.

I'm getting a 500GB soon that will run on a wireless network so I can access the files from anywhere.
 
It may seem a little much but i have lost a few drives in my time, as well as seeing other people lose work due to not keeping backups

2x 500GB Raid 1 mirror on main pc
2x 750GB Raid 1 mirror on server

2 x 250GB external drives for moving data and a duplicate of all my keepers at work in the back of the tape safe :D
 
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