Saturday, November 26, 2011
Photo Storage...Maintenance/Backups
I spent a few hours this weekend cleaning up my Mac hard drive. I had roughly 9GB of storage left on my local drive. My primary culprit was iPhoto. I have a 500GB My Book Home (Firewire) external hard drive installed as my primary backup drive. That drive also contains a backup of my photos.
A few months ago, I had purchased a 1TB My Book Elite at Costco for a bargain. I went ahead and installed the new drive as my second external storage drive. I moved my iPhoto database (~65GB) over to this new drive. I also copied over my photos from the other external storage.
I also have a 500GB My Passport portable drive that contains a backup of my photos.
In all, I have three backups of my photos. Is it overkill...maybe. I'd rather have a piece of mind knowing I have a good backup when one of my hard drives fail.
I'm happy to report that I have over 60GB of storage on my primary local drive. Life is good!
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Do you use any online storage?
I leave all the computer details and backing up to my husband but have started uploading some special favourites to Shutterfly - just in case.
Right now, I don't use online storage. My photo archive is rather huge...in the gigabytes so I have to rely on my external drives for storage. That's a great idea to upload favorite pics to Shutterfly. I do upload my faves to Costco as I use them to print my enlargements. Thanks for your comments. :-)
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