These days, we all take a lot of photos, and usually across a range of devices. These photos often capture important memories and events, and serve as a digital memory of our lives.
Losing your photos could be heartbreaking, which is why having a good photo backup system in place is really important. You don’t want to wake up one morning to discover your hard drive or device has failed, and all your photos are irretrievably lost.
The good news is that it’s not hard or expensive to back up your photos, and you can quite easily put an automatic system in place that will handle all your photography backup needs. In this post, I’ll walk you through the various options you have for backing up your photos.
This is based on my years of experience as a professional photographer. I’ve taken hundreds of thousands of photos over the years, and keeping them all safe is really important. In addition, prior to being a photographer I worked as a software engineer, so I also have familiarity with computer systems and the importance of backups in general!
First, I’m going to answer some questions you have about backing up photos. Then I’m going to cover what to look for in a backup solution. Finally, I’ll go through my photography backup recommendations for different types of device, including computers, Android smartphones, and Apple smartphones.
What is a Photo Backup?
A backup is an exact copy of the photo which is stored elsewhere. Although photo backups can be physical and tangible (e.g, film negative, printed photo), we will focus on digital photo backups in this article.
In film photography, you would normally just have a physical negative as your only backup to your developed photos. However, film negatives are very susceptible to degradation, damage, and loss. Because of this, many modern film photographers digitize their film negatives to have an additional backup.
An advantage of digital photography over film photography is that all our images are stored as digital files. A digital file is essentially just some computer data held on a medium like a memory card or hard drive.
Because a file is digital data, it can be easily duplicated. The duplicate will be exactly the same as the original, and can be stored in a different location. This copy would be known as the backup. If the original is lost, the backup can be copied to replace it, with no loss in quality.
Different Types of Digital Photo Backup
There are two main types of digital photo…
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