External hard Drive and backup

[Billy n NC]

Several have asked questions about purchasing external hard drives or networking computers to use as a way to backup the huge volume of pictures that we are taking now a days with our digital cameras.

I have had a digital camera now for about 8 years and have huge numbers of pics.

Anyway once you have your storage device you will need some way to copy/migrate/syncronize etc your data.

I am using a package called Allway Sync.

http://allwaysync.com/index.html

and its free for end users. They want to sell pro license to business.

You can elect to sync drives/folders/files or as in my case it is just coping from primary to backup drive. Takes a while for the first time but after that it just copies the changes..

And I am sure there are other packages but this one is working for me.

[MacUser]

Sounds good.

For the MacUsers.. if you have 10.5 you can use the fantastic Time Machine feature. I absolutely love it.



http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html

Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that’s built right into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac — digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything.