Backup, Backup, Backup.

I was sitting here at my computer this morning and realised that I hadn’t done a backup of the latest wedding to DVD.

Well, as you can imagine, it was done immediately.

I had a situation almost 4 years ago where my hard drive failed and I was unable to recover a lot of images. Fortunately, they were personal images and not business related.

What upset Angela and I the most about the loss of the images, was the loss of the one’s of my grand daughter taking her very first steps.

I was at her first birthday party and had the camera trained on her to take a couple of shots and as I pressed the shutter, she let go and walked. That was a once in a lifetime happening and it is now gone.

Since then, I have been very strict with myself on doing a backup everytime I have new images on my hard drive. I back them up to another hard drive and make a backup to DVD.

There has been a lot of discussion regarding the life of DVD’s and CD’s and I don’t think anyone really knows what the lifespan of these various type of media is.

After doing some research on forums and talking to other photographers, I have started using Taiyo Yuden DVD’s and CD’S, as these are considered to be one of the best on the market. There are other manufacturers, but I can’t think of who they are right now.

So, remember to back up your images as soon as you have downloaded them onto your computer. If you do, then you won’t have my horrible experience.