I'm quite anal about this.

Photos get copied onto my laptop from the camera. At that point CrashPlan starts automatically backing them up onto the internet.

They're in camera raw format at this point, so while they're backing up (they're about 25MB per photo, and I might do several hundred at once, so the backup can take days) I'll process them, making JPEGs from them. They'll also automatically backup to CrashPlan. once the backup has finished I'll discard any rubbish exposures and lots of near-duplicates, and then write a DVD of all the undiscarded raw and processed photos. Then I copy all of those, again, onto an external hard drive, and then delete the raw photos from my laptop.

That way I've got (much smaller) jpegs kept on the laptop, and backups of the jpegs and the negatives on a hard drive, on a DVD and in the internet.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on May 28th 2015 at 13:31:27

Message Thread

Where do you store all your photos and videos? (General Chat) - Charles21, May 28, 13:13:54
- When you I get them back from Boots I usually put the good ones (General Chat) - CB41, May 28, 14:12:02
- Google + (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, May 28, 13:40:21
- Could just get a few old ?10 phones and store stuff on them! (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, May 28, 13:39:40
- you don't need to keep all your porn on hd now... it's easily (General Chat) - Pixelman, May 28, 13:35:59
- The. Cloud. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 28, 13:32:17
  - Well, that's for snaps and stuff like that. Old photos and stuff I really don't want to (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 28, 13:35:01
- I'm quite anal about this. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 28, 13:31:27
  - are you ok? (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, May 28, 14:56:43
  - I'm still roaring with laughter at this. The hours must fly by in Chez Bay Media Suite (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, May 28, 14:11:57
    - Takes no time at all really. Backups do themselves. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 28, 14:14:05
      - Why bother ? You won't be able to read them soon anyway. I migrated all my DVD stuff back (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 28, 14:18:03
      - Where do the DVDs go? Fireproof safe? (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, May 28, 14:17:57
        
        They're in a box, behind the settee. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 28, 14:19:04
        
        Almost Da Vinci Code-esque in the layers of security there, pal (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, May 28, 14:23:54
        
        They are very "special" piccies though (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, May 28, 14:25:28
  - then what do you do with them? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, May 28, 13:47:43
    - What does anyone do with photos? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 28, 14:13:10
  - Quite? FFS pal (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, May 28, 13:35:47
  - Jeepers. Have you thought of turning out thousands of tiny paintings of them too? (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, May 28, 13:33:03
    - The really good ones, yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 28, 13:37:41
- ReadyNas with x-raid also Google+ (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, May 28, 13:30:30
- One drive (General Chat) - Wilts, May 28, 13:26:20
- just about to collect an external drive in a minute (General Chat) - SCC 28, May 28, 13:15:55
  - I automatically back up all stuff to a storage hanging off of the router... (General Chat) - promethian1, May 28, 13:21:30

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