I’ve never gone into how exactly secure and backed up all of your photos are, but since all the cool kids are doing it, I figured that I ought to as well. While my setup is not nearly as fancy, or expensive, as Chase Charvis’, it still serves me, and therefore you, well.

I just completed expanding the BM|P data center, pictured above. I’ve got five (that’s right… five) 1 terrabyte Lacie external hard drives. I purchased them through Amazon for about $120 each*.

When I get home from a shoot, I download all the images onto my MacBook from the CompactFlash cards. I keep all working files and in-work images on my MacBook. The MacBook then gets backed up hourly to one of the 1TB drives using Apple’s TimeMachine.

Then, I have two external hard drives each for my personal photos/video and professional photos/video. One of the drives serves as the archive for the images, videos, and files. The other serves as a backup of the archive. So, when I get done editing photos, I upload them to the previously mentioned Zenfolio and move them to the appropriate archive external hard drive. The archive external hard drives are backed up weekly using ChronoSync.

So, all photos are stored on an archive drive and then backed up twice (once on-site and once off-site). If you have any questions about my setup, feel free to hit me up with questions.

* Full Disclosure: If you click on the link and then purchase this hard drive through Amazon, I will get a tiny referral fee.