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One of the most important aspects of our work as photographers is the storage of our photos and videos. Not only do our businesses regularly depend on our images and videos remaining safe until final delivery, many of us keep years of personal memories backed up for safe keeping. A few weeks ago, our own Alex Cooke wrote a review on one of the most dependable ways to back up what's important to you, the new My Cloud Mirror 2. As a follow up to his article, Fstoppers and WD would like make sure you have the option to keep your back ups secure by giving away three My Cloud Mirror 2 units. Check out the details below.
When it comes to backing up files, all of us place importance on different things. I personally have hundreds of thousands of wedding images I've taken for clients over the years stored on multiple hard drives. The story of these images show my progress as a photographer, and also guarantee that in a dire situation, my clients can retain access to their pictures. Outside of my business, I place the most value on the many travel pictures I've taken in over a dozen countries with my wife. These are some of my most treasured moments and memories in my life. I love to look back on them from time to time to remember the many rich life experiences we've shared together.
What are the most important items you store digitally? Fstoppers and WD would like to hear from you and give you the chance to safely store the precious aspects of your lives with a new 4TB My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2).
To be eligible to receive one of the three giveaway units, simply leave a comment below this article describing the most important items you back up. Fstoppers will randomly select three winners from the comments to receive a 4TB My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2). For a full list of sweepstakes rules and eligibility, click HERE.
The most important files I back-up on my hard-drive are Video files and Photo files that I believe represent my work the best. I use these files to make Demo reels and portfolios so if I lost these images or video files I wouldn't have work to show prospective clients.
Client photos for sure. But, I have become the family documentarian by default. I've scanned more images, digitally repaired more images, and cataloged more images than I care to recall. But, these images that date back 85 years or so are in my hands. Those are the irreplaceable treasures.
My portfolio and my junk photos. My junk photos are so important because you never know what little item or background you may need to Photoshop into a project.
For me it's my photos and my finances (really just a spreadsheet I update weekly with bills due, account balances, etc. so I don't forget anything).
I back up irreplaceable memories
Always have a backup plan.
I freeze all time, events, and exploration on reliable WD backups systems. So My autobiograhy can be passed down to the future generations.
Photos of course, which I back up constantly and also keep everything in the cloud.
Pretty much everything on my internal hard drives gets backed up to external drives.
I've taken on the task of backing up old photo albums from family members. These photos have never existed in digital format and only now can be shared easily with members of the family across the country and with future generations. These are really important to me
Contemporary art photos and videos. Raw, edits, projects, documents, all of it! Learned the value of backing up the hard way ...twice
I don't back up anything. Because I'm an idiot. I really need this thing!
The most important files I back up are client shoots, always have at least 3 copies. I've also got all my personal files, photos and misc items backed up in three locations as well.
All my photos, and the backups for my websites.
My photos record a time and space that will never happen again and backing them up is super important.
I back up everything in my life's journey in the chances that my photographic memory fails (and it will). Having that history of a singular moment to fall back on is important to me and others.
Definitely my photographs. Many reflect a distinct moment in time and space that would be impossible to replicate.
I back up all of my pictures, obviously, but also important documents. I have a top loading scanner and I scan almost every important piece of mail into PDF and have it automaticaly backed up on th ecomputer.
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Everything I backup s of equal importance. My entire body of digital work is backed up including work and personal photos. In addition to that, my whole system is backed up.
I am famously unorganized. I tell myself I enjoy having a messy workspace but it's really because I am lazy and careless. My history with media storage, Lightroom libraries, scratch disks and file structures in general has been atrocious. Offline files and missing media were an all-too-often occurrence. Then I found out my wife was pregnant.
The thought of losing a moment, misplacing a file, and erasing history scared the hell out of me. I am now whipping myself into shape. I watched the recent Fstoppers/G Drive post on all things raid, several times. Read up on proper Lightroom library managment. I have incorporated a routine for media management using A Better Finder Rename and a redundancy process on my 2 tb external. And I have begun window-shopping online for a serious back up system to protect my files, as confidently as my parent's did with their leather bound photo albums. This unit would be an amazing gift and relive so much stress on an already empty soon-to-be father's wallet.
I need to back up the photos I have taken of my 6 month old baby girl. I never thought I would love taking pictures of babies but every day she has a new look or mannerism that I need to document.
I need a back up storage for all my photo's and video's.
So work is work and I keep everything backed up 2/3 times but I would say the most important thing would be my families stuff. My folks, like a lot of yours are, not the best at the computer nor backing things up old photos. After a computer (of my folks) going down a couple of years ago, I decide to hold back-ups for them as well. So now and you guessed it, even if they have it on their computer, I still print it and bring them a copy.
Surprise: It's all about the photos here!
Perfect for storing all my pictures of the grandkids.
Im a professional photographer who shoots weddings, editorial, and commercial assignments. Im looking for that extra back up for the work load. I currently shoot 2-3 times a week so you can only imagine the editing and retouch work load and the size of those files! I would love the My Cloud Mirror 2!
You mean aside from all my bookmarks to amazing Fstoppers content? Then it would be all my banging photos. Let me know if you need my address. Otherwise I'll head to Charleston for the weekend and pick it up there. Thanks!
Ha...i save EVERYTHING. So one of these would be nice, indeed.
I back up all my still images and videos from professional photoshoots and all the other images I create....
Having lost about a year's worth of RAW files because I only had one copy of files, I have learned my lesson as to the value of having multiple backups to my files. This is just the kind of product to prevent future losses.
I keep photos from clients, family photos and new short videos i have started making.
I store my life's creative work on an old but solid WD My Book mirror (FW800). So, it all is important. Now I need to move on to newer and better.
Photos and videos of my 6 year old son and our adventures...
Pictures of my kids at National Parks are by far my most treasured images
Photos for clients, but also my personal photos - even scans of ones from childhood.
I try to backup anything and everything from pictures to documents. I would love to streamline my backup process and this system looks perfect! The most important items I store digitally are definitely family pictures. :)
I've Raid1'ed everything for the last 10 years. It's the only way to go.
I back up all my life no mater is family travel or work. However keep separate is THE key of a well base organize system !
The most important items I back up are files with .CR2 extension. ;)
moments in time
I've lost so much work that I failed to back up so now it's all my photos that are important!
Besides client work, I backup scans of my childhood slides and photos. As well as all my other photos, of course.
Backing up photos and videos of my family, friends and clients. I owe it to all of them to keep our memories safe...not just my own family. It's part of the trust we earn as photographers.
One of the main reasons I backup my images is that a majority of them cannot be recreated again either because people pass away, buildings/locations are razed, etc. What's important to me about these images that I am constantly archiving is that who ever lays eyes on them after I'm gone will have atleast some understanding and respect for their significance and place in history.
The most important things for me to backup is client work. I had an external drive crash once killing all my work older than a month. The only thing saving my bacon was the fact that I recently upgraded to the new version of Lightroom that introduced smart previews. Those things allowed me to still print a late coming order in the sizes I needed. Now I back up religiously, three echoing external disks on site, off site backups in two locations, and memory cards aren't used again until AFTER the job is closed fully.
The most important thing I back up is photos and videos of my favorite sport Floorball.
Most important files financially for me to back up. All client work, material people paid me to shoot. Most important files personally for me... without a doubt my family. Footage recorded at Christmas, family photo at Thanksgiving, etc.
Would be used for my pictures and videos of what's most important to me. And that's my family and friends :-)
I have so many hard drives with pictures and the fear is always if one should fail. These Raid storage devices put me a little at ease.