How To Backup and Store Your Digital Photo Files

Last week I blogged about how I have been organizing and tagging all my digital photos during frequent 3 hour flights. I received several comments and questions from readers about what to do with those photos once they are tagged and organized into a meaningful architecture.
I find myself once again sitting on an airplane and thought I would take this time to address this issue, which is actually two different issues; how to safely store the images and how to use and share the images, rather than have them sit or eternity in folders on your hard drive. This week I will look at the issue of storage and next week we’ll talk about ways of displaying your photos and sharing them with others.

If you haven’t been paying attention to the past few years, the technology of hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and now online backups, it just keeps changing. One thing is for certain, do not do all the previously mentioned photo editing work and then let these files sit on your computer without any kind of backup. Hopefully most of you have never lived through a hard-drive crash but enough of you probably have to know what I am talking about. A friend recently lost his hard-drive and posted on Facebook that he felt sick to his stomach. That’s probably typical of the experience of losing years of data that is not replaceable.

I think that it’s always good to have a backup hard-drive connected to your computer with software that does a daily backup of important data.

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