After last week’s meditation on using external hard drives instead of DVDs to back up photos, Loyal Reader Mike Van Horn responded with the following e-mail: My advice to you is, “Purge!” I look at my own backups of photos, and what I see is lots of garbage (at 1 to 2 meg each). Many duplicates of the same photo. Gobs of photos of people or things I never need to view again. Photos of all … [Read more...]
Changing the Photo Backup Paradigm
A couple of weeks ago (back when I should have been writing this post), the Ur-Guru and I had a conversation about archival storage. He wondered what was going to replace DVDs, particularly for photos, because he was running out of room for them. He has hundreds now, since he has never thrown any away; some contain data copied from floppy disks or magnetic tape, back in the olden days. Optical … [Read more...]
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