A brilliant overview on how to back up your computers from BasePath essential reading for all photographers who don’t want to loose their photos!

January 30, 2008

(Updated 31-Jan-2008, 7-Feb-2008, and 8-Feb-2008; updates in red)

I’ve read countless articles about backup over the years, but not one of them approached the problem properly. They all focus too much on hardware and software, and not enough on what I call independence—getting the copies and the originals separated so they’re not subjected to the same threats. And, too often they deal with just one or two threats, most commonly a disk crash, and ignore the others. In fact, not one article even bothered to enumerate the threats to help check that the backup plan deals with each one of them.

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