Basically the same. For my professional shoots, I definitely transfer from Card to DVD as soon as I return. I then back up to hard drive(s). The way I figure it, drives can go bad (so can DVDs) but I feel that the preservation of my important stuff on DVD stored in a safe place is my rescue backup in case something happens. I erase from my cards as soon as I have the backup sequence completed.
Ceci
Good idea to have backups stored off site, too, in case of fire, for example.
Don’t rely too much on CD’s or DVD’s. They go bad far more quicker than you think or hope…
Ronald
Backups is something I am a little paranoid about – you know it’s too late when your HDD makes little grinding noises …..
Most of my stuff is shot in RAW on 4gig CF cards – if I’m doing a lot of shooting (or travelling) I transfer these to a 120gig Vosonic portable hard drive (no need for PC). As far as possible, I try to maintain these two copies (card and drive) until I can transfer to PC.
When transferring in Lightroom, I make a simultaneous backup to a network drive which lives remote from my PC (just in case). After processing, I end up with a DNG file as the master and a TIFF as the working copy plus the original RAW backup (I purge the RAW’s every now and then once I’m happy everything is OK).
The drives on my PC are automatically backed up each night to the network drive. About once a fortnight, I make an incremental backup to DVD which I store at work – and once every three months or so make a new full backup on DVD.
Benefits?
* at any one time I have at least two copies on hard drives, and several on DVD’s
* because I do regular full backups to DVD, I am not relying on the longevity of the DVD
* by storing offsite, I am minimising impact of burglary/fire
As I said, maybe paranoid, but you never know …..
