| What's the worst thing that can happen to a | | | | require a lot of storage space to keep the backup. |
| professional photographer who makes a living making | | | | What adds to the problem is the fact that you |
| and selling memorable images? Losing your portfolio | | | | probably have more photographs than a tourist with |
| as a result of hard drive crash can happen at any | | | | a camera in an exotic country. Well, who is to blame |
| time leaving you out of work for months or maybe | | | | you, you are a pro and this is your job! |
| years. Or will it leave you totally out of your | | | | So how can you attend the problem of photo |
| profession? | | | | backup without losing your pictures and nerve? The |
| No professional photographer works without a | | | | answer is use the right photo backup software. The |
| backup. The possible backup solutions are many | | | | backup software is much cheaper than buying a |
| including very costly data storage devices which | | | | server for storing all your photos. The photo backup |
| make use of the raid technology. However, you | | | | software also resolves the issue of storage. It allows |
| should know that you can find a pretty cheap | | | | you to back up data to FTP servers, remote data |
| alternative with the same security level as more | | | | centers via Internet or large capacity optical disk |
| expensive solutions. | | | | such as HD DVD and Blu-ray. |
| Backing up professional photographs is harder than | | | | No matter which option you prefer, buying a photo |
| backing up amateur photo albums. Why? If you are a | | | | backup program will turn out much cheaper than |
| photographer, you know why. The main reason is | | | | buying a special backup hard drive. Compare the price |
| that professional photo shoot is done using | | | | of the program ($29) with the price of a large |
| professional equipment which requires a lot of image | | | | capacity HDD ($200-300). In addition, the photo |
| processing thus making an image much heavier than a | | | | backup program takes full control of the backup |
| regular picture. While a regular image weighs about 50 | | | | process while you have to do nothing at all. It copies |
| KB, a professional photograph may reach up to 5 MB | | | | your photos automatically on a schedule compressing |
| in size. | | | | the images to the zip archive and backing them up in |
| This makes the overall amount of information that | | | | full or incrementally. |
| you need to back up extremely large and so you will | | | | |