Photography -- Re: photo storage question

Linda,

I agree with David that one needs several backups. I don't store any of my photos on my C drive (so it has plenty of room for scratch space for Photoshop and for printing large prints). I have a data photo drive and a backup data photo drive in my computer. I have backups of various data on my older, smaller hard drives on a shelf and a hard drive located off the premises. I use some of my older drives to make functional backups of my C drive so I can just switch them in if the C drive gets nailed somehow.

Roy

In a message dated 4/27/2008 2:16:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dd-b@xxxxxxxx writes:

(I would argue that it's terribly important to have *more than one*
backup device; otherwise, while you're running a backup, your old backup
is partly destroyed (which usually means completely unusable) and the
new backup is incomplete, and all your data *and* all your backup are
online at once so a big power spike or a malware hit could potentially
destroy all of it at once. You might also want to consider three, and
rotate one of them off-site fairly frequently, weekly or monthly. I'm
using optical disks for my off-site, hence two backup drives for me.)