![]() Of course, this doesn’t quite meet the 3-2-1 ideal outlined above, but it’s so much better than working without a backup at all. Many photographers have a drive that they work from (active storage), a backup drive located somewhere in their home (inactive storage), and a cloud backup. This sounds like a lot on paper, but in practice, it’s a little more straightforward. This is why there are some best practices handed down to us by IT professionals, like the 3-2-1 rule, which goes like this: Create a primary backup as well as two copies of it (so three backups in total), and those should span two different types of media, and at least one should be kept off-site. But even then, companies shut down and are acquired all the time. The most reliable storage is actually cloud storage because that data is being maintained by fleets of engineers in data centers. Why? Because all physical media fails eventually, and not just spinning hard drives, but SSDs and SD cards (micro or full-sized), too. When it comes to backing up your precious data - photography or otherwise - the name of the game is redundancy. In this guide, we’ll give you all the tips and tricks for backing up for every scenario, including natural disaster and burglary. And if you are a pro, not only do you need reliable backups, but you need a substantial amount of capacity, especially if you’re doing video. ![]() Even if you’re not a professional photographer, you should be backing up your photos.
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