Take a few minutes to evaluate your storage and backup strategy, and see if you can use the tips in this article to make some improvements to your systems. Is everything on it backed up to another drive and/or to the cloud? Do your backups run continuously, or at least daily? So many people think they have good backups, but then when something happens, they realize that their backup is months old or that it didn’t include an important set of folders. Now consider what would happen if your drive failed tomorrow. If you use Adobe Lightroom, you should know exactly where your catalog is stored, and where your catalog backups are stored. Not just your images and videos, but your entire file system, including workshops, presets and actions, financial documents, etc. Know where you store the original copies of your files. No matter what solution you choose to store and backup your files, the most important thing is that you fully understand the system you have in place.
As photographers, we have a large amount of images and other digital content that we need to protect.
