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This was just itchin' to get out! So we all hear the same old drivel about backing up and organizing your photos and music.
If you don't you'll regret it.
I just want to say for the record: "It's true."
But you can avoid this very easily. If you have a collection of images that need to be backed up, you need to copy them and store those backups. I'll simplify by posing three scenarios.
One: Say you have a collection and would be happy if you saved just the favorite pictures. In this case you could rate your images in say Google Picasa and backup the images that have higher ratings. Burnt onto CD, DVD or BlueRay.
Two: Let's assume you have a huge collection of a variety of media. This would require at this point in technology a series of hard drives. Formed into a nice box with a fan, in most cases. These have been called RAID or use some other proprietary method of redundantly storing data across all of the drives. While at the same time considering that drives do fail. It can then be removed and replaced; data replaced or redistributed; and off you go.
Three: In the very least go out NOW and get an external drive and plug it into your computer, and synchronise your stuff between the two.
Then you must ask yourself where best to put this drive. The answer is not in the same locaton of your computer. You must relocate your stored backups some place entirely different. Firesafe, shed in yard, friends place, at work, or in the chest freezer. Get the idea?
That's it for now. Questions?
