Back it up!

Back it up!, originally uploaded by See Shel's Photography.

The sun is shining - and the baby animals are out at the Saskatoon Zoo! I spent the morning there with my stir-crazy children - thankfully the sun is out and it's wonderful outside! (I don't think we could have taken one more rainy day! I'm running out of craft ideas here!)

A quick reminder to back it up! Back up all those photos - burn a disc while you make supper, get it stored because it's really not a matter of if a harddrive will fail but rather WHEN a hard drive will fail. (I've gotten the great opportunity to experience this more than once in life - I'm still stinging from the great photo loss of 2003).

There are so many options - DVD's, an external hard drive, thumb drives, actually printing the photos out....(hahaha!) - there are also a bunch of online options - one I use is Backblaze - it is constantly uploading and saving my harddrives for me - and saves everything for 30 days after it's deleted which is handy as well! Restoring lost files is easy through them as well! And it is SUPER affordable - though if you end up losing your child's first year of life photos you're pretty much willing to pay anything to get them back.

Back it up today so it won't become a worry later!!

There is also a poll open at the top right of the blog - I've been tossing around the idea of a contest for awhile now - so we could do a random give away, where you just enter your name and voila, we're done! Or we could really fun it up and have some participation where there would be some sort of photo entry and then some audience vote (could be a lot of fun!) I'm always open to suggestions, so let's here it!

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