backup

Sounds like a good time for everybody to share how they backup.

First thing I do when I get back is dump the cards to 2 sets of CDs or DVDs depending on how many images there are.  One goes in the client file and one goes in a spindle.

Files are then moved to an internal hard drive that only has photography stuff on it. I go through and tag, sort, rename, and delete the junk from there.

And every night I have a script setup that syncs that drive to an external drive and connects to a computer at a relatives house a couple hundred miles away and syncs to that as well. 

I've had to go back to DVD a couple times when I deleted the wrong file.  Fortunately I've never had to go to either the external or remote backups. 

When I get done shooting we upload the cards to the main computer.  Nothing gets deleted from the cards until everything is backed up.  Then all the images go into a file named "originals" that get saved onto an external hard drive in a folder with the client's name and date.  Once everything is edited I save a file on the external drive named "edited".  I then save just the edited in a remote storage.
That's it.

Hey, thanks for bringing this to my attention.  I do back up, but not as often as I should.  I back up my files from my hard drive to my external every week or two, and I do a (2) CD backup every couple of months.  I guess I should modify my workflow to include immediate backups.  It makes sense and would certainly be a good habit to develop.  Besides, I could save space on my internal drive.

So, my new workflow I think will be something like this:
Save files from cards to folders on internal
Copy files to external
Edit and Save As (with new name) in new folder on external
Burn entire job to CD's (one in my studio, one off-site)

What d'ya think?  Am I missing anything?

Travis

I download on computer #r 1, then transfer to a removable harddrive.  I take that harddrive to computer #2 where I copy those files unto the harddrive of my editing computer.
I edit the photos, and then burn all the files to another removable harddrive, then burn the files to DVD discs.

Once the files are burned to DVD, I delete them from both computers, and one of the removable drives, leaving me with the files on one removable drive and DVD backup.

Once the "finals" removable drive is filled, It is put into storage, and I bring out a new one.  (All my removable drives are 500 gig).

Two words

Time Machine 

No, no, no, no.

Think Mac, the new Leopard. 

At the moment a 500 gig WD, she screams a lot, she's backing up as I'm writing. hehehe