How do you back up you image library?

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Just looking for ideas on how other b/up? Do you manually copy files, on import copy to two locations, use software?.... I'm worried if use a application for this some day I wont have the app any more and b/up images lost, or that if I manually do it wont be done often enough. What solutions have others used?

Thanks in advance
 
I do it manually. The D drive in the PC has a folder called Photos which is subdivided to years, months and days.

Every now and then (I know it should be more regular than that) I copy the all of D:/Photos to an external hard drive.

I should really have a second hard drive, stored off site for additional security.

Dave
 
There are a number of apps on the market that will backup for you. On a mac it comes with Time machine.backs up automatically. There are also apps that come with external hard drives, Lacie supply one for Mac and PC with each of there drives, but it will only back up to LaCie drives

Widows 7 I believe has a back up facility as well ( wouldn't know too much about that as I'm on Macs)

Theses apps simply copy the files from the source drive to the back up drive. They are not normally compressed ot encrypted, unless you ask the software to do it. Simply opening the folder on the back up drives revels the files as normal.

The easiest way to manually back up is to store your images within a single folder ( You can have sub folders within this to help searching ) and then on a regular basis just copy this top level folder to your back up drive. OK you copy images you have already saved, but this makes sure you don't forget anything
 
Import to 2 locations, it's a feature built into lightroom so why not use it ;)

Then my PC does incremental hourly backups and continously update an offsite backup.

You can never have too many backup systems in place ;)
 
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