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- 7/24/09 2:20 PM
I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 7/24/09 2:20 PM
Question:
I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas
I am going to Europe for three weeks in October with several friends and we each have digital cameras with varying types of memory cards. I would like to be able to download their photos to one backup storage device so we can capture a composite of all of our photos and make a book of our vacation together and keep them backed up just in case. I am considering either the Picture Porter Elite or the Colorspace UDMA hard-drive-type devices. I would appreciate any advice regarding either of these backup devices or others I might consider. Open to ideas and suggestions. Thanks!
--Submitted by Jane R.
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Overseas Photo Backup
by DLSno1 - 7/17/09 6:11 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
OPTION One ... Use a cheap laptop with a CD recorder drive built-in. Back up to CDs.
OPTION Two ... Take enough camera cards with you (suggest 1GB capacity). Use one a day, or one per venue. Backup not required, until you return home.
Forget Physical Media or spending $$$
by 8086 - 7/25/09 5:21 PM In reply to: Overseas Photo Backup by DLSno1Forget spending any money or lugging around physical media which can become lost or destroyed. A free service called A-Drive will provide you with 50GB of free online back-up and upload storage space.
No CD's to scratch, no hard drives to drop, no memory cards or thumb drives to loose.
http://www.adrive.com/
How About This.....
by rickb93 - 7/17/09 6:16 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I travel extensively in my consulting business. My solution was/is Carbonite Online Backup! It works! I have had a crash and had a perfect restore! It is what I recommend and I only do this for a living! 
Rick Bryson, MSCS, MSM, MCSE, MCP, MCT, CCIE, A+, Net+
Backup Solution for Digital Photos
by colonnade - 7/17/09 6:22 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I would give you two suggestions. 1. use a gmail or yahoo email account and email the photos back to your account(s). 2. Get a USB powered mini hard drive that is a small 2-3" size and down load a copy of the photos to that. You can always purchase a number of media cards (SD/Compact/etc.) and just place them in a safe place, but an offsite (home) storage of the photos is best.
backup options
by XSYLUS - 7/17/09 6:26 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Clickfree makes several really good backup devices that are designed for ease of use but can be catered and configured to fit individual needs. http://www.clickfree.com
Carbonite is a web service that offers off-site backups however this option requires having access to the internet to upload and download the backups. The good thing about this is that if your equipment gets lost, stolen, or damaged during the trip your files aren't backed-up locally to an external drive and thus are safe from mishaps. http://www.carbonite.com
There are also external hard drives that have card readers built into the cases which allows for quick and easy backup of pictures and files from multiple flash card types. Here is one such device http://www.adorama.com/WVPP80.html but it's not the only one on the market.
Hope these suggestions are helpful. Enjoy your trip!
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Now you're talkin!!!
by JCitizen - 7/24/09 7:48 PM In reply to: backup options by XSYLUSWhat incredible designs - small compact hard drives with their own power/with multi-card support! The super professional Vosonics are another more expensive solution over at Digital Discount. But they have viewers on them also, with an incredible amount of control!
Plus they will hold and transfer movies.
Maybe some of the links on products you had did too, but it wasn't readily apparent.
vosonic
by peter L - 7/27/09 9:50 AM In reply to: Now you're talkin!!! by JCitizenI'm using for 3 years now a 80Gb vosonic photocontainer. reads CF & SD new type reads also SDHC.
Traveling in S E Asia I consider this the most secure way. Never had a HD crash, carried the device in my photobag. Internal battery lasts a whole day for 2 people and 3 cameras. Car adapter available.
Uploading online seems a secure way but do you want to spend hours of your precious holiday in a cybercafe or exploring the nice country you're visiting? A more expensive model has a display but IMHO is a luxury. Having all your picture in one place is also good if you have a mac and iPhoto. your photo album will never look the same as before.
A last consideration: if you take less then 1000 pictures consider a 16Gb or 32Gb SDHC or 32/64Gb CF.
At 3 to 5 Mb per photo you have lots of room to fill.
I hope this helps you to decide and does not add more confusion.
have a nice holiday.
Peter
Look at the Archos devices
by guiri_too - 7/17/09 6:29 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've had one of their players for many years and they are beautiful products. They come with drives up to 250gigs or bigger and you can do so much more than just store info as some of their units (not all I think) act as hosts so that you can connect a camera or a card reader. Most similar units do NOT do this.
This means that you can preview your pics on a LARGE screen with super quality and when you travel/fly, you can watch movies that you've downloaded or recorded to it AND, some units are DISH NETWORK compatible so that you can download stuff from their DVR's
On top of that, some models are music and video players and recorders. YOu can get online with them and attach small bullet/helmet cameras and record voice. They are super cool and most people don't know them simply because of the big impact of the iPod which is VASTLY INFERIOR to the Archos products in terms of features and bang for the buck.
The thing is that you can get these on flEaBAY cheap if you get a generation or two older unit.
The BEST place to find out what you need is post a few questions on this forum http://forum.archosfans.com/
I don't know any place where there is so much archos info. I suggest starting in the Gen5 and Gen4 forums.
Trust me, they are worth the time
George
Use an iPod
by iowafarmboy - 7/17/09 6:53 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We traveled overseas and I took a 30 gb iPod with a $29 attachment from Apple that connected directly to our digital cameras. My wife has one kind of card and I have another. I had lots of music and podcasts on the iPod to listen to and I had lots of room to put full bore pictures on as well. When we got home I connected my iPod to the computer and downloaded 1000 pictures and 80 small movies off of the iPod. Easy to carry and use. Worked great.
Ipod problems
by ggebert - 7/18/09 5:48 AM In reply to: Use an iPod by iowafarmboyI have found the ipod solution using both belkin and apple accessories, very unreliable. They might work for smaller amounts of images and other files, but for the newer larger image file sizes and the number of images a person might make on a long trip - I would not recommend it. I have tried it on three or four different ipod models with poor results. The purpose-made back up units like the Wolverine and Vosonics, etc. are well worth it. I have posted elsewhere in this forum some comments on one of these photo units - the Wolverine.
There's always the online backup option...
by kolarthas - 7/17/09 7:05 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If you're looking for a cheaper option, there's a software called Mozy that allows you to back-up files to online servers. You install the software on your computer, so you'll have to copy your friends' pictures onto your computer. Once you set-up the software to backup the files you want, it will only backup new files as it keeps track of previously backed-up files. This might be very useful if you keep adding pictures to that folder and don't remember what you backed-up.
The catch? You only get 2 GB for free. If you use a referral code (such as HNW58F) when you signup, you'll get an additional 256 MB. So if all the pictures are less than 2.25 GB, www.mozy.com is a good option. If you want more space than that, you'll have to pay a fee ($5/month, I believe). I'm too cheap to pay, so I simply make use of the free 2.25 GB.
2GB is too small to back up a single DSLR image!
by melsnyder - 7/24/09 5:37 PM In reply to: There's always the online backup option... by kolarthasPlus, the connect time would be enormous. That's fine for Word files, not for digital photos.
Overseas backup
by aeparker - 7/17/09 7:05 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Take a laptop computer with you. I would say take a notebook, but you will want 30 GB or more just for pictures. Copy everyone's pics to it. As often as possible stop at an Internet cafe & upload the pics to a photo hosting account. You can also copy from the laptop to other devices, so that you could replicate to other memory cards (take twice as many as you think you might use). My daughter & her fiance just got back from a 5 week European vacation and they did not have success trying to find a computer to use to upload their memory cards from their USB device. They came home with 28 GB of pics. When her fiance went to China, he took the laptop, and was able to have a copy on the laptop as well as to upload the pictures. He & his friends came back with 43 GB of raw pics after two months.
We used...
by Goddess614 - 7/17/09 7:07 PM In reply to: I need a backup solution for digital photos while traveling overseas by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
....just a regular portable, external hard drive, which connected via USB to our netbook. The netbook has a multi-card reader, but we also took the camera-specific cables, too, just in case. It was just a 320GB drive, but it held three weeks worth of large file-size photos from two cameras (and a lot of music for our iPods, too). And it was very easy to transport in our carry-on luggage.
Your brand preferences apply here....of course.
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