Backing up SD cards on location

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Hi Guys, hope some of you more technically minded people can put me right here.

I'm off to Zimbabwe and then South Africa at the end of December (3 weeks today actually) and I'm trying to come up with a plan which involves me leaving my trusty Dell XPS 15 at home to keep my luggage weight down. However, while I'm there, I've also got 2 shoots to do for friends and their family.

My initial plan was to buy an iPad Pro with pen and upload some/all of my photos to that for editing while away and then dump them to my laptop when I get home at the end of January. However, I'm trying to think of a way to back up my cards while I'm away. Is there a way I can use a flash drive to get the contents of the SD card onto that so I can have a back up as well as my photos on the iPad?

Open to suggestions but given I'm taking already taking my full D750 gear, I trying to keep the rest of my stuff light. Thanks in advance.
 
ah thanks, I clearly missed this.
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I did exactly this when going on safari in september. Bought a wd my passport wireless pro which was ace. Took the ipad pro which was ok to look at jpgs (shot small jpg and RAW) but transferring RAW and editinh in lr mobile i gave up pretty quickly. Best thing for me was having an original card and a backup to hd for peace of mind. Thought about 2 my passports but i’d just splashed out on a load of cards before i knew the mypassport existed
 
I think I'd just take big cards and shoot raw to both, flash memory doesn't degrade anyway really. Not when not being read from / written to anyway.
 
I'd say a hardrive like a WD passport is less stable than solid state SD cards. Just by more cards.
 
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