Backup Your Photos - Don’t Lose Your Works Of Art

February 2, 2008 · Filed Under Photography Tips 

Lawren here again and today I have a lesson that I’ve unfortunately had to learn the hard way.

I have a laptop hard drive sitting in a drawer at my parent’s house; it’s been there for months. It’s sitting in a static free bag just waiting until I can save up enough money to get the information off of it. Let’s just say it will be there a while - quality data recovery services are pricey.

The moral of this story? BACK UP YOUR PICTURES!!! Unfortunately this is a lesson that most people learn too late. They only start backing up their information after they’ve suffered a catastrophic hard drive crash.

Fortunately, backing up your photos can be almost painless and quite simple. One easy way to backup your photos is simply to burn them do a CD or DVD (dual layer DVD burners can store 8GB+ on one disc, and a Plextor Blu-ray Disc burner can store 50GB on a single disc).

Of course, you can always just purchase a backup hard drive. Spare hard drives these days are cheap. I’m preferential to those made by Lacie, but any just about any external drive will work.

And then there’s always online backup which not only backs up your photos but also allows you to access your photos even when you’re not at your computer. Many people use photo sharing sites to save their photos, but if you’re serious about your photos, you probably don’t want to do this since few photo sharing sites allow you to save your pictures at full resolution. It’s better to go for the paid photo backup services.

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