Is it beneficial to have two separate hard drives to backup the same images?
I use the sand disk hard drive to backup my images but would you recommend having another hard drive to store the same images just in case?
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- A file does not exist unless it is saved in three locations, with two backups, and one of these must be off-site, in cloud storage.
- Like many here, I learned from experience. Backup to at least one location, preferrably two. And, one of those must be 'off site', so the cloud is perfect for that. I lost only a couple of days of work. I know many who have lost a life time of images etc.
- As someone that’s lost two hard drives in the space of one year, I’ll suggest cloud storage as a second option. Unless you’re extremely careful
- I have one copy on a hard drive and one on Dropbox, which you can access from anywhere to send some files. I edit from hard drive (photos and videos). It works well.
- Definitely! You have no idea how many times I’ve lost images because a hard-drive has suddenly corrupted the files! Once it happens you never do anything without a backup ever again. Now I backup on the cloud as well as I work on the files to have the working files backed up too lol
- @Amin McDonald thank you sooo much! That was very beneficial advice! I think I’ll definitely try that instead of only relying on hard drives 😊🤲🏼
- I used to have a LaCie hard drive to store all my photos and vids on but I got really worried once I heard scratching in the drive. This sound cliche but using Google Drive actually saved me so much stress. I would say keep the Sandisk and have cloud storage as back up. I usually work on my current projects with the hard drive and then back up everything onto Drive as I go along. It’s a bit tedious but it’s honestly worth it. Oh! Also paying monthly or annually for it isn’t that expensive if you’re working on paid jobs :) hope this helps
- @Jayah III Dropbox has smart storage so you don't have to have everything mapped to a local drive. You probably need to be able to mount a cloud drive to work from it - if you're on a mac have a look at this article https://www.macgasm.net/software/mount-cloud-storage/
- @Daniel Hawley-Lingham you know any good cloud drives which you can work from the cloud itself?
- Definitely beneficial take it from someone who’s found out the hard way…
- use the cloud it's 2023
- @Latifu Laoye or it don’t*
- @Latifu Laoye thank you so much!! Will definitely be taking that on board 😊
- I’d say so. An IT guy once told me, 3 places or it’s down exist.So that would be your computers hardrive and x2 backupsYou can automate this with apps
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