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Backing up my backup

12 years ago

Holy Hanna, it's taking forever! I put all of my pictures on an external hard drive. Partly because if my laptop craps out, I'll still have my pictures. I've had a 2T hard drive for a few years now and it's 3/4 full. Not just pictures, but .pdf booklets, documents, etc.. Today I picked up a 1T hard drive and I've been copying my pictures to it from the 2T one. I want to keep that one in my locker at work. I figure if the 2T one craps out, I'll still have the 1T one. And if the house burns down, I'll still have my pictures. Obsessed? Crazy? I dunno........ I just know that my first few cameras (a 4mp and an 8mp) took smaller pictures and the first few years copied quickly. Then I went bigger and started shooting .raw. A few folders have taken over an hour to copy. Then I got a new camera that takes larger pictures and when I saw how big the folders are for 2011, 12 and 13, I figure I'll be spending the weekend moving just those three. I've even cleaned out a lot of pictures. You know the ones. We all have them. "What was I thinking?" pictures.... I still have a lot of video to go through.

So, do you back up your back up?

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Elmer J Fudd
12 years ago
Many do extra copies. My view is that it's probably not necessary unless you're really serious about what's being stored, and if so, part of your backup plan should be to keep one copy "offsite" (like in a safe deposit box). Which you should.

There's no reason to accumulate raw image files if you aren't going to be working with them further. I'm not a big believer in "what if".
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