Are YOU Backing Up Enough? | How to Backup and Organize Your Photos and Videos

The thought of losing photos and videos, whether you've been paid to take them or not, is a daunting thought. Vanessa will show you her method for how to backup your photos and make sure they're safe, accessible, and organized.

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[MurrayNJ]

Could not stress this enough, great advice. Looking lovely as always!

[ARLGD]

Wow, this Segway Portable PowerStation Cube Series sounds like an incredible backup power solution for outdoor enthusiasts like us! With its massive capacity, fast recharging, and waterproof technology, we can enjoy uninterrupted power during our camping trips. Plus, the smart app control feature is a nice touch. Thanks for sharing this recommendation!

[chrisseary]

Perfect! I’m an IT security consultant, and I rate your backups as being on point. Great advice, and thanks for sharing this 😃

[bretwalley]

Great Video, Thank you, have a Great Christmas and New Year.

[raydunn]

yep, , , your right, , , iv'e had painful experiences in the past, , , computer hard drive broke, , , lost all my best work, , , that was about 20 years ago, , , still havent got over it, , , but I learnt my lesson, , , I hope all the subscribers take note, , , copy copy copy, , , after all you cant have enough of a good thing.

[KarlVaughan]

I use a RAID drive to back up everything and then Livedrive's online backup in addition gives me peace of mind. It is unlimited and once it's all in the cloud it quickly updates. It's so important to keep files safe. They can so easily be lost!

[AdrianBacon]

I don't shoot weddings or events and rarely shoot outside of my studio, so my backup scheme is much simpler. I shoot tethered, and my shoot session is in my Dropbox folder so as each photo is shot, it's on the card in the camera, on my laptop, and automatically uploaded to my Dropbox. At the end of the photo session, I also zip up the shoot session and upload it to an Amazon S3 bucket that I use for offsite storage. I also have a standard backup scheme to back up my laptop, and have a pair of external hard drives that I keep a copy of all shoots on and once a week cycle the drives between home and the studio so there's one at each location. I also use shootproof, so that's also a copy. At the end of the day, it's on two cloud storage services, my laptop, my laptop backup, and at least one external drive, and edited photos are also on shootproof.

[Spartanshaq]

That intro is brilliant. My wife and I started laughing. we lost a batch two days ago haha

[marktomphotography]

Wow, first time hearing about the DJI Copilot drive. Love their products. Thank ya!

[achristianson]

I need a user interface to see files if I’m using an external HS

-My workflow is in camera memory
-Then simultaneously Bluetooth transfer to backup iCloud drive
- after project, session, whatever… I pull files manually into laptop clearing the memory clean. The files will be saved on local c drive. So I have a hybrid raid …cloud, external drive, c drive, and then I data transfer all raw and dlog to customer . I’ll edit on my own and resend when done

[Reddepex]

Very good!! In the edit you mentioned the backup of the raw files to another site. That's important, because in IT they say: raid is not a backup :) Having a raid systems means redundancy in disks, but if files get corrupted or anything else goes wrong, raid means it's just redundantly wrong :) So always backup the raid drives for a real backup. And do not use raid5, because there is an error in that system. Raid1 like in this example is better. Even better would be a self healing filesystem like ZFS or btrfs. Good video!

[aramb]

I don't even do event photography, but I'm a stickler for backup. Dual cards, import to lightroom (using an external drive), copy to second drive, cloud backup service which continuously watches my main drives for new files.

[TomCooper]

What I do is randomly choose a folder and a file, rename that file (don't delete it) and try to get it back from the backup. Now imagine doing that for thousands of files in hundreds of folders.

You may discover that recovering from a disaster would be a nightmare, even if the backup works perfectly.

[GTOAJ]

Thanks and Merry Christmas to You and Your Family

[marcvloeberghs]

Thank you Vanessa for your professional advise, very first Merry Christmas for you and your family, you are fully right about the number of copies you save away. For a IT specialist the only real security backups are those off side because the idea this things will go wrong on your own premisses which will make you to lose your local copies. So your number of copies are fully justified and indeed LaScie backup systems are really fine tools, I also use their rugged system for transport. See you/hear you in 2021, until then stay safe and healthy.

[kalleyjohnson]

Very true I have lost photos in the past not a professional photo or anything but very good advice

[royaltykidstv]

Do you have a video of how to organize pictures from two different memory cards that will go into the same Catalog? Meaning if my wife and I have a photoshoot what we do is upload first pictures from one camera and then from the second camera, but what happens is they are not importing based on the time they were taken, once all of them are imported the pictures stay the order on how they got uploaded.

[fixitrod]

I use SSD drives to prevent movement damage. They are much tougher. I keep 3 copies of all RAW and JPG local so when (not if) one goes down I still have 2 copies while the drive is repaired. One stays in the fireproof safe. I have a cloud backup sync my local drives as well. I don't trust "the cloud" so I treat my local backups as the only copy but if a tornado takes my local I can download my cloud storage to start again.

[ToddWhirley]

Very helpful! Thanks. I appreciate all the Adorama videos and learn from the every week.

[RC-Heli]

I run 2 hard drives in my PC one for Windows and one for Linux always and keep my data on both and have DVD backups of stuff I don't want to loose.
In the event of a fire I could loose everything though which is a scary unsettling thought.
A while back my Windows hard drive failed all at once and become completely inaccessible. And then my 2nd one started giving warning shortly after I got Windows 10 installed on a new SSD two TB hard drive. So I scrambled to the store and grabbed up a 2nd 2 TB SSD for my Linux installs and copied the data over before the hard drive failed.
Just like that I was down to all my DATA being in one place and on a teetering hard drive.
Except for my DVD backups but they wouldn't be even close to up to date.