{"id":1515,"date":"2017-10-28T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannysteyn.com\/blog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:17:58","slug":"simple-automatic-image-backup-protocol-for-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dannysteyn.com\/blog\/simple-automatic-image-backup-protocol-for-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Automatic Image Backup Protocol for Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to backup your photos to prevent loss of your precious photos<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Over the years I have seen so many photographers post in forums and on social media, looking for help on how to retrieve their valuable images from their failed hard drives, that it still STUNS me that they are NOT using a simple and automated backup system that ensures their images are safe.<\/p>\n

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Bikini Calendar Photography – Behind the Scenes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those of you that think that automatic backup of your images is unnecessary, then you obviously do not understand that every single hard drive WILL FAIL. That\u2019s right, 100% of all hard drives and SSD\u2019s will fail. HDD’s and SSD’ all have a finite life, some shorter than others, and unless you are a clairvoyant, they will fail before you can take action.<\/p>\n

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ALL Hard Drives WILL Fail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So you have NO OPTION but to employ a redundant backup system.<\/p>\n

At our photography studio, we have been backing up our images automatically since 2002, and we have never lost a single image so I thought I would show you a simple backup protocol that has never let us down.<\/p>\n

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Danny Steyn Photography Studios – Natural Light Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Please note that since we shoot several Terabytes of images for our studio each year, and since cloud storage services are priced based on the size of storage needed, and since uploading large quantities of huge image files uses significant bandwidth, we currently do NOT use cloud storage for our image backup. As prices for both storage and bandwidth continue to drop, this is something that we might consider in the future<\/p>\n

But before we start, here are a few terms that you need to understand<\/p>\n