How to archive and backup photos - Photography Workflow (3/3)

I created a series of three videos in which I am sharing my complete end-2-end photo lifecycle process.
In this third episode of the series I am showing you my long term archiving process. I am walking you through my strategy of keeping three copies of my photos on different media.
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[@TheMPhotography]

I would be curious to hear how you backup your photos and what you think of my process.

[@tonykeltsflorida]

I just recently ran into your videos. I shoot RAW and JPEG. I put those on my Computer. I use a portable SSD drive as my main backup. Amazon photos and Playbook are my cloud storage.

[@TheMPhotography]

Cool. So you also have a hybrid of some sort of local storage combined with cloud solutions.

[@carminecastelli6827]

Hallo Markus danke Dir sehr für dieses wirklich sehr informative Video zum Thema Langzeitarchivierung. Werde mir mal deinen Prozess genauer anschauen und vielleicht auch für meine Fotografie in Zukunft verwenden. Mach weiter so. Schätze deine sehr persönlich und sympathische Art sehr, wie du deine Community über das Thema Fotografie informierst und Erfahrungen austauschst. Danke Dir Carmine

[@TheMPhotography]

Vielen lieben Dank für dein Feedback und die netten Worte.

[@channamasala]

Thanks for the series of videos - very helpful and great timing for my own learning. I wonder - how/what software do you use to mirror your images from your NAS to your portable drives? Thanks, matt

[@TheMPhotography]

Thanks a lot for watching Matt. Glad it was helpful. I use FreeFileSync as my utility to mirror data between the drives.

[@maxbentz6916]

Hi Markus,
really liked your video, it inspired me to also adapt a little my own backup-strategy...! I've got 2 questions, maybe you have any suggestion ? (1) do you do any (batch-)renaming of the original foto-filenames created by the camera itself (eg "L19654.dng" to "yyyy_mm_dd_hh:ss_cameramodel_projekt.dng" or so...) or leave them all with their original names ? (2) your "export" folder on the portable ssd: is this only one folder in the root directory of the portable disc (like your catalog-folder) or several export-folders each within every projekt-folder? Thanks a lot !

[@TheMPhotography]

Hi Max, thanks for watching. Happy to answer your questions. 1) I don't rename the original files. If I would want project specific files I would rename during the export phase. 2. In the export folder I create two folders per project and name them after the project. One folder contains TIFF exports and the other one JPEG files. Technically you can store both file formats in the same folder. I hope this helps.

[@KarinMajoka]

What a coincidence - just checked RUclips the minute you uploaded. Seeing your video makes me want to upgrade my archiving system, since mine is far from being safe against loss, I guess I will have to invest in a NAS at one point. Thanks for elaborating on your process, Markus! :)

[@TheMPhotography]

Thanks for watching and your feedback. An investment into a NAS is probably a good investment. Considering also how much money we sometimes spend on photography gear. Would be a pity to loose our work.

[@dhedc]

I love Flickr.

[@marcandy9226]

You mentioned that you export your photos in JPEG/TIFF. Which color space are you using for archiving (sRGB, Adobe RGB...)?

[@TheMPhotography]

I do sRGB for the JPEGs and Adobe RGB for the TIFFs (and 16bit).