Backing Up Photos and Artwork
In today's digital world, it is extremely important to back up all your work. Any computer could fail in an instant leaving you with a feeling of doom in the pit of your stomach and missing weeks, months or even years of work.
Back about a year and a half ago, I decided to purchase an online backup service for my desktop computer (after my previous computer failed instantly). All the files on this desktop are backed-up daily. I've been comfortable in knowing that if my computer becomes inoperable, for whatever reason, I still have all my files stored in a safe place.
I also had three external hard drives of old photos, videos, music and documents sitting around on my desk. The good thing about this is that I had photos on external drives. The bad thing is that none of these drives were backed up.
I tried to access one of these drives a few days ago and found that this particular drive was behaving erratically. This instantly reminded me that I never did backup any of these external drives. I needed to do something about this immediately!
I bought a Western Digital "My Passport" external drive... 2 terabytes in size... and copied all my years of photos and art to this new drive. In total, I copied approximately a quarter of a million files! These files are documents, videos, music (even some recordings of me as well as some students), photographs and artwork going back about ten years. I definitely don't want to lose any of these.
So, when I received my new drive the other day, I coped the quarter of a million files to this new drive... and, last night, I ordered another one of these "My Passport" drives to use as a backup. I'll be relieved to get this backup completed!
After I'm backed up, redundantly, on these new drives, I'll be able to reformat the old drives to use for other uses.
It is comforting to know that I now only need to grab these two new tiny drives if disaster strikes our home... they fit right in my camera bag... or, perhaps I'll store them in the safe with all our important documents.
Back about a year and a half ago, I decided to purchase an online backup service for my desktop computer (after my previous computer failed instantly). All the files on this desktop are backed-up daily. I've been comfortable in knowing that if my computer becomes inoperable, for whatever reason, I still have all my files stored in a safe place.
I also had three external hard drives of old photos, videos, music and documents sitting around on my desk. The good thing about this is that I had photos on external drives. The bad thing is that none of these drives were backed up.
I tried to access one of these drives a few days ago and found that this particular drive was behaving erratically. This instantly reminded me that I never did backup any of these external drives. I needed to do something about this immediately!
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| Ten years of files on one drive... soon to be duplicated. |
So, when I received my new drive the other day, I coped the quarter of a million files to this new drive... and, last night, I ordered another one of these "My Passport" drives to use as a backup. I'll be relieved to get this backup completed!
After I'm backed up, redundantly, on these new drives, I'll be able to reformat the old drives to use for other uses.
It is comforting to know that I now only need to grab these two new tiny drives if disaster strikes our home... they fit right in my camera bag... or, perhaps I'll store them in the safe with all our important documents.
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