Are your photos safe? - 125,000 reasons to back-up

We take your photos very seriously and have 10 Terabytes (what’s a terabyte I hear you say!??) of photo storage spread across two locations for security. That's 10 million megabytes or to put it another way - 7.3million floppy discs - enough to store the entire U.S. Library of Congress!!! That's where we keep photos - all 125,000 of them!

That's 10 photos for every day that Sarah
has been able to hold a camera!!!

When did you last back up your files?
It's frightening how many people don't do a regular back-up especially considering how often hard drives fail and how easy it is to do a back-up. The easiest and cheapest way is to get yourself a couple of little external hard drives. Something like this for £56 will do nicely. The exact size is up to you, depending on how much data you have, but for most people 500GB will be more than enough. Remember to get a bit more than you think you need. Storage is so cheap now you do'nt really save much getting a smaller drive anyway.

• Do an initial backup of your files on to both of them
• Leave one of them at a friend’s house who you see regularly.
• Do a regular backup to the local drive (many external hard drives come with some synchronisation software so it only backs up the files that changed since you last backed-up. Or use the free Microsoft synctoy)
• Swap them round every so often.

The £112 expense is nothing compared to the sinking feeling you'd have if you lost all your family pics and that tax return spreadsheet you've worked so hard on.
We advise do it now!