Whats the Safest Way of Storing Digital Photograph Files?
Jul 1, 2012 10:07:54 #
This topic comes up again and again so I thought I would share this.
http://oneslidephotography.com/whats-the-safest-way-of-storing-digital-photograph-files/
It is only one opinion of course.
http://oneslidephotography.com/whats-the-safest-way-of-storing-digital-photograph-files/
It is only one opinion of course.
Jul 2, 2012 07:12:30 #
My suggestion of saving photos is the BRDVD backup method vs. the printing method. I think that with time any printed photo will lose a lot of it's detail, (color, sharpness, etc.). My suggestion would be to save your pics to DVDs or BRDVDs. Yes, DVDs. Multiple DVDs. Preferably Blurays..When your digital pics are chosen copy them to BR DVDs then make 2 or 3 copies of the DVDs and send em out to family members for off-site back up. Tell them to store in a safe place..THEN (since DVDs dont last forever), every 2-3 years copy the BRDVDs to a new set of BRDVDs and replace the older ones, adding new photos as required....That way you will also be keeping up with the technology changes....That IS the safest way !!
Jul 12, 2012 09:46:00 #
Hard drives are cheap enough so you can afford to back up more than once. Having 2 or 3 copies will lower the odds of losing the files and you would have the ability to make fresh paper copies if you need them.
Printing takes too much time and space and burning disks is also time-consuming.
With a hard-rive copy you can walk away from a 30GB copy and come back to it when its done.
Printing takes too much time and space and burning disks is also time-consuming.
With a hard-rive copy you can walk away from a 30GB copy and come back to it when its done.
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