Photo Backup
A few weeks ago I decided that it would be a good idea to backup all my photos. Currently I have over 4000 photos, which amounts to 6 GB. So the question was what was the best method? This task went on the todo list and I pondered the best way to go about this.
Then, a couple of weeks ago, I saw a link to Migrating 21k Pictures and Videos from Flickr to Picasa and realised that it provided a good method. Using two different providers means that I do not have to worry about local backup media dying and it also gives me the choice to move from one provider to the other as my main host in the future.
As I do not have a Mac, I used FlickrEdit for the download and that took about a day. The upload took a couple of days. At some point I will need to sort out the photo tags and geotagging, which did not move over using this method, but overall it was a fairly painless way of making the backup.
