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    BellyBelly Member

    Sep 2007
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    I have a program from Creative Memories (the scrapbooking party plan company) called Memory Manager, and I think its quite good. It reminds you to back things up (which I do onto a portable hard drive), it has a timeline so you don't have to sort everything into months and years, you can have as many folders and sub folders as you want, for example, I have a folder called family, which then has sub folders for the 4 of each, I have another folder called events that has sub folders such as birthdays, christmas, day outs. You can sort things into a number of folders, eg I can put a photo of DD into her folder and into the birthday folder, but it only saves one copy of the photo itms. It has a search function, so you can search for a word in the photo name. It also has some basic editing software too. I think there's more that it can do but its pretty new so I'm still figuring it out.

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    Nov 2007
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    We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!

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    Oct 2008
    Victoria
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    I'm a bit pedantic about our photos On the camera is just that month's photos, so at the moment it's only got September. I put the pics onto the computer and name them all, usually they're of Moo so I'll say Moo 2 Years or Moo's 2nd Birthday etc. Each month then goes onto both a CD and a 4 GB USB when it's over, that way I've got 2 different back ups. I take so many photos - last month was over 600 so it normally takes 2 CDs for each month and a USB might hold 3 or 4 months.

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    Jan 2009
    pakenham, victoria
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    We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!
    we do the same

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    Jan 2010
    Shoe Heaven
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    We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!
    I've had two 1 terrabyte drives fail in the last two years so have scrapped backing them up on external drives

    I use DVDs (more space), need to go through and re-organise them again & burn onto different dvds (ran out of re-writable ones), I also have a laptop that has a 500gig hard drive in it which has the most recent photos on there (using iPhoto - it is a MAC) most recent ones were synched from my phone while on holidays.

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    Registered User

    Oct 2010
    Brisbane
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    My camera is relatively old - about 5 years so the files are small, and my computer is about 11 or 12 years old.

    I back up onto DVD's, and also use websites like Photobucket.

    I try and post a copy of the DVD's to various relatives as an extra backup (hopefully!)

    I have recently started using an EXIF file renamer, which renames all the photos with dates and times eg 2011-09-24 etc

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    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Feb 2006
    melbourne
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    we store on external hard drive that then lives in a fireproof safe!!!

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    I've had two 1 terrabyte drives fail in the last two years so have scrapped backing them up on external drives

    I use DVDs (more space), need to go through and re-organise them again & burn onto different dvds (ran out of re-writable ones), I also have a laptop that has a 500gig hard drive in it which has the most recent photos on there (using iPhoto - it is a MAC) most recent ones were synched from my phone while on holidays.
    EEEK! we used to back up on DVD's but when I went back to use a few of them they were scratched and we lots a lot of pics... Seems there's no easy answer!

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    Jul 2009
    Out North, Vic
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    I need to get all my pics off the comp, quite a few are on FB but they are not the greatest quality once you want to re-use or print them.
    I am going to be putting them all on discs and then in a CD case, i really want to get back into printing some of the photo's we love aswell.
    I was thinking about getting some cheap USB sticks but not 100% on how reliable they would be for storing for long periods of time.

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    Registered User

    Jun 2010
    594

    Thanks guys, it looks like there is no one set way that is better than another, they all have their drawbacks!!