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Permalink Reply by Rosemary C-B on October 21, 2010 at 4:01pm

Michelle--sorry this has happened to you. I can't imagine going through that! As for our back-up, we are pretty crazy about that.

We burn both the raw files and jpg images to DVD (in addition to keeping them on the desktop for work purposes) and keep them both in a fire safe at our home studio and in a lock-box at our bank. We also use Carbonite for off-site storage. Can't be too safe, right?

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Marie Heick on October 21, 2010 at 4:11pm

Wow so sorry to hear that. It is a constant fear of mine. Did you have good insurance? Will they replace your Rebel with a new 5d? I figure they would cancel me or raise my insurance if I actually made a claim. As far as backup as soon as I shoot I download onto a drive then make a backup DVD. Then I usually back it up again on a second hard drive. Dvd's and drive never kept at same location.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Morris on October 21, 2010 at 4:20pm

Thanks for the tips! I never thought about using a DVD. I don't see why anyone would steal that. And a fire proof safe is a good idea too. I was thinking today about getting a safe just to put my camera in. Thankfully, I do have insurance. I doubt they will upgrade my Rebel to a 5D but I was planning on upgrading anyway, so now I'm just being forced to go ahead and do it.

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Permalink Reply by Artem K. on October 25, 2010 at 10:23am

Sorry to hear about your loss...

I store all files on my computer + have two external drives - the idea is to rotate them where one is suppose to stay in a safe deposit box at the bank (they are not that expensive, plus depending on your relationship with the bank they might just give it to you).

As far as Carbonite goes - it does take time to do a full back up. But once that done only changes are backed up - so that is normally done pretty quick.

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Permalink Reply by Rosemary C-B on October 25, 2010 at 12:59pm

And we also put the externals, cards, etc. IN the fire safe whenever we leave town. That way, if anything is stolen the images are safe. Unless the burglars want to drag a massively heavy fire safe out of the front of the house...

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Morris on October 25, 2010 at 8:52pm

These are all good ideas. Thanks for the info! I'm going to start looking at safes and buying a couple hard drives. I never thought I would need more than one! Guess I learned the hard way. I may try the online back up thing again too. Thanks again.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Holzworth on October 25, 2010 at 11:01pm

3 external hardrives, one kept offsite, and back blaze which is an online backup system.

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Permalink Reply by Susie Lundmark on October 27, 2010 at 4:40pm

so sorry to hear about what happened to you...I work with a company that recovers data from Hard Draves and flash media gone bad (unfortunately not stolen hdds though :( ) I am always amazed how many photographers there are that don't back up their stuff.. anyway we (my husband and I) have sugar sync http://www.sugarsync.com/offers/freetrial/?gclid=CLWhs4rz86QCFQNY2g... but i also have smug mug account which i am using more for galleries as not necessarily for backing up but they have an immaculate system for backup their data and their customers so your images are pretty safe with them too.

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Permalink Reply by casey moore on November 23, 2010 at 5:24am

I've been pretty stupid by not backing up my work but as soon as I get my new Mac pro and MacBook pro I'm buying a g safe to back all of my work on, the model I'm getting features 2 raid1 1tb hard drives so it puts exact copies of what you save on both drives and the. The drives can be pulled out and kept in separate locations until your ready to update them again. They are supposed to be pretty amazing even chase Jarvis uses it. Check out his video on how he backs up his work it's mind blowing lol

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_b...

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