My archive system is two 500G external hard drives. All changes to my work is backed up onto them daily, and they mirror each other. I don't have any of them in a safe, but if there were a fire or something that I had two minutes to do anything, all I have to do is rip the power and connection cords off one of them, grab that, my system backup and my laptop, and run out the door. I'll have everything that way. (My financial data, address book, etc is also backed up onto a secure network volume every morning automatically, so I can get to it any time I can get to the internet with any Mac OS X computer.)
For photo projects, I also write a DVD copies when the work is completed. Safety in replication. Godfrey On Feb 20, 2007, at 8:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, I am back, couldn't stay away. :-) > > I was talking with some people today about fire. Several condos > here over > the years have been gutted by fires. Made me think I should get a > safety > deposit box and copy my digital photos to DVD and put them in it. > When I think of > fire the first thing that springs to mind is what a shame it would > be to lose > all my photos. But I've been negligent about it. > > And, although, this has been discussed some before, it made me > think of a > poll -- I am curious how many others are negligent like me -- so... > > > This could apply to film as well as digital, but digital is > probably easier > (we'll find out). > > 1. Do you have a location in which you put backup copies of your > JPG/DNG/RAWs (etc.), negatives, and/or prints? Is it a location > other than your home, in > case of fire or disaster? > > > > 2. If, so, is it a safety deposit box? Or is it a fire-proof > strong box at > home? Or something else? > > > > 3. How often do you do make backup copies to safely store away? Do > you have > some sort of backup schedule or is it sort of hit and miss? > > > > Anything else about backing up copies that you want to add... > > > > Marnie aka Doe :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
