I use Western Digital Passport drives for backup. While lightweight and maybe not intended for 24-7 use, they are very portable and are USB powered. I agree with the post below, and I frequently backup two very important computers at work - each to its own Passport drive. Then the drive goes home with me. Each of these drives is 1 TB - that's a terabyte or 1,000 gigabytes! They cost me $129 each, plus $13 for a padded case. Seems like cheap insurance.
The answer to the question "how often to back up? " is "how much do you want to (or can you?) re-enter?" After struggling for hours with photo edits or accounting, are you willing to do it all over again or pay an employee to do it again? How about a week's worth? How about a year's worth. Spending a few minutes every couple of days on incremental (only changed or created files) backups is cheap insurance. While the instance of a vandalism, fire or flood may be less, storing backups offsite is cheap insurance that one set of files (work or off-site) will survive many calamities. Given the price of Passport drives, the only good excuse for not making backups and moving them offsite is that the computer is used only to surf the web.
One obvious caution is not to make a backup to the same disk drive as the original. No discussion here.
Finally, there are on-line backup services that save off-site backups via the internet for a monthly fee. I can't speak to these - I have never used one, but automatic background file backups to a way off site location seems like a good idea (unless their server turns out to be in your building!) I always get nervous when someone else has my data "out there somewhere." You can lose control of it quickly.
From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of broodmare1@nststlouis.com
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:38 AM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [photoshop-beginners] don't forget...What is the Point?
And the thing that most people forget about backup drives is that you really want to keep a set of backup files NOT in the same building as your tower. By doing so, if you get robbed or the place burns, either way, all your files are still gone....
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: jring2333@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [photoshop-beginners] What is the Point?
I was so glad I had my backup drive when my computer crashed! I was able to restore all my files, programs, etc. with no problems. I wouldn't be without one.
Judy
-----Original Message-----
From: ottawa photog <ottawa.photog@gmail.com>
To: photoshop-beginners <photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Aug 28, 2010 2:38 am
Subject: Re: [photoshop-beginners] What is the Point?
Well, first and foremost, I use mine as backup, not sole storage.
Wherever you store your documents / data / photos, never store them in
only 1 place.
As for durability / lifespan, external or internal are about same, but
if you use
your external as backup and don't leave it on all the time, should last
much longer...
On 27/08/2010 1:09 PM, john p wrote:
> Why use an External Hard Drive as they have timescale and then when
> they no longer work you loose all your Photos or what ever you have on them.
Thankyou BigJohn UK
>
>
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