I got 3 hard drives. Let's say 300, 500 and 750 GB. I always save to 3 locations. When smallest runs out of space I will buy 1TB and keep copying to 3 locations. I use rsync so I always to 3 exact copies of folder with photos.

Tried to use Amazon S3 but it's too slow so I never finished uploading before I gave up. Ultimately cloud of computers should be safes what to backup but I wish I could send them a hard drive so they would upload data locally.

Duplicate post.  Sorry.

That canon it's just a way of protecting authors from piracy. While it's awkard, because it doesn't tell about storage media used to pirate copies from the ones used to store own content, it is the only effective way of giving back to the authors and the industry a tiny perercentage of what they lose everyday through PSP nets.

Yeah right, so I demand a tax on the internet of which a percentage is given to me since my pictures are probably stolen by the internet. If the tax on empty media is intended to compensate the musicians for their losses through Torrents (P2P is outdated), they steal in fact from me since I used DVDs for backing up my own data.

Not that it really matters since I live part-time in this tiny country bordering to Germany and France (the Netherlands have the same tax) which don't apply the tax. Sales of empty media went down drastically here. As to piracy, well, stolen pictures, software, music would probably never been bought by the pirates anyways. And as to my other part-time place of living in SE Asia, well, I think I never saw a legal version of anything. And that's an understatement. 

Yeah, i am a bit nervous writing my stuff to CD's and DVD's.  I have backups on that media but also have another copy on my computer, and a third copy on another hard drive off site.  I think backing up on more than one media type is a good idea.

I also re-back-up everything every few years, on new drives so I know the media is for sure still good.  Drives are getting cheaper and cheaper so it is really inexpensive to back things up.

Last summer, I took a workshop at the Santa Fe Photography Workshops. My teacher recommended an external harddrive plus archival CDs or DVDs for backup. They come in gold and silver. I haven't used the silver, but the gold are supposed to last 300 years. Also, don't mark discs with sharpie markers. In time, they will make the discs unreadable. They now make special markers for writing on the discs. You can find both the discs and the markers at most good photography stores. I did an internet search to find the best price. A word of warning, they do cost a lot more, but it's worth it for safe storage. Another teacher of mine recommended having one backup stored in a different location. Somewhere away from your other two backups. Hope this helps.

Pat

Last summer, I took a workshop at the Santa Fe Photography Workshops. My teacher recommended an external harddrive plus archival CDs or DVDs for backup. They come in gold and silver. I haven't used the silver, but the gold are supposed to last 300 years. Also, don't mark discs with sharpie markers. In time, they will make the discs unreadable. They now make special markers for writing on the discs. You can find both the discs and the markers at most good photography stores. I did an internet search to find the best price. A word of warning, they do cost a lot more, but it's worth it for safe storage. Another teacher of mine recommended having one backup stored in a different location. Somewhere away from your other two backups. Hope this helps.

Pat

oh boy, I am in trouble. My cds and dvds are all marked with those pens.
Is there anyway I can erase them clean off the dvds? do you think there is a product I can use so I can have all the backups free of ink? That would be easier than to have to backup all again.

Sio, I don't understand why are you so angry. Buy the media in the country without taxes, and problem solved without need of worrying about ethics.

I'm not angry at all. I just keep being amazed how stupid politicians are. But then, I'm amazed at many things, all the time. Amazement keeps us going, right?