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1135288 2010-09-07 04:11:00 Hi all, after losing a few photos from a major crash I am looking for a way to backup just the recently added photos. In "My Documents" I have a folder called "My Photos", in that folder I have a seperate folder for each family member - hobby - club -event - etc. OK I have saved a copy of "My Photos" to DVD (900MB), but how can I add to the DVD any photos I add to any of the folders in say the next month without including the 900MB already saved.
In other words how do I keep track of any photos that have not been saved to DVD. Hope you can understand.
jebby (4580)
1135289 2010-09-07 04:35:00 Buy yourself an external hard drive.
Download Syncback (free).
Once you've copied to the drive with it, it will just copy the new stuff from then on.
pctek (84)
1135290 2010-09-07 09:44:00 Couple more options.

If you're a telecom customer you get a flickr pro account (unlimited). Use flickrsync to upload.

Or depending on number of photos Windows live mesh does about 5gb for free.

Or the final solution (and I use this last one) - Carbonite online backup $50USD for unlimited storage.

Of course your data caps come into play with this typoe of solution, which is why I did all mine while on big time, since I have bout 10gb worth of photos now (1st born son) @ 5+ megapixels.
psycik (12851)
1135291 2010-09-07 09:50:00 Google have just ramped up their Picassa Online Web Albums, where you can back up photo's, and share albums, etc. kahawai chaser (3545)
1135292 2010-09-07 10:14:00 Google have just ramped up their Picassa Online Web Albums, where you can back up photo's, and share albums, etc.

In what way? I still only have 1 gb storage.

I prefer the look of Flickr, just find the photo stream idea personally more appealing.....but really love the picasa app with uploading to web albums.
psycik (12851)
1135293 2010-09-07 10:51:00 u have lots of photos, as far as i see, maybe it is a good way to buy a hard drive faith1806 (15972)
1135294 2010-09-07 11:20:00 Thanks for the replys, I didn't realize it would be so involved, will look into the suggestions, thanks again. jebby (4580)
1135295 2010-09-07 19:48:00 Its only as involved as you want it to be. The harddrive option is a good one. Connect a hard drive run synctoy, and take harddrive away from computer.

For a pure 2nd copy perspective this works (you could do it manually....if you remember to do it, and this is a key point). - I've personally found I prefer set and forget, so I went the carbonite (and looked at mozy online) route.

But 2nd copies don't help in the event of a disaster etc, this is where getting the 2nd copy "somewhere else" be it a mates house, online in the cloud, your workplace is, I think, a good idea. So the hard drive still works but you again have to remember to make the backups, and take the hard drive away.


I know people that ship drives (they drive swap) with backups from other ends of the country, seems overkill to me, but hey, each to their own.
psycik (12851)
1135296 2010-09-08 02:06:00 Buy your self an external hard drive and make a robocopy script to backup your files. Deimos (5715)
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