Saturday, December 8, 2012

Blogging and picture storage and backup


I've been thinking about this for a while. I want some opinions on what fellow card bloggers do. After one has scanned a card and blogged about it, or posted it to some online photo storage/sharing site do you delete the scan from your hard-drive to help free up space? Do you keep a copy of it? Do you copy it to a flash-drive, data disc (floppy for those with older systems), CD-ROM or DVD?

I've been keeping most of the stuff still on my hard-drive partly due to laziness and partly to have a back-up in case something happens online, or I have a brainfart and forget the image is already on the blog somewhere or online somewhere else. But lately I've been thinking of deleting most of what is on my hard-drive and if I have to re-scan something if I need it again.

So what do you all do?

6 comments:

  1. I have an external hard drive and every couple months I transfer all the scans over to it.

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    1. Thanks for your input. I've got a couple of 2gb flash drives I keep some stuff I keep on, don't recall if I've started putting card scans on either.

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  2. Hard drives and Zip drives are so cheap now a days that I wouldn't delete anything you shoot. Matter a fact have you backed up your blog yet? I would keep a back up of this as well so you are protected by a hacker or some other unknown in the future.

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  3. I delete them. I have the cards so if I need to I can always scan the card again. My cards are all organized so I could find a specific card faster than I could find a card scan in a file of 1000 scans.

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    1. Adam,
      That is the line of thinking I've been on lately. Except my cards are not all organized, some of them are but not all. I need to work on that.

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  4. not so worried about scans, I've got the original cards after all.

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