okay so this is a very important topic whenever you are working on a project back it up, but it is not enough on your computer, it really is best if you can make yet an additional back up copy on an external hard drive. The reason for this is that, in the event that something happens to your device, weather it be lost, stolen or broken you still have a back up. This past weekend was a prime example, I do most of my editing on a tablet, I had just got done photographing one event and took a cab to the second event, I had just stepped out of the cab and had not even made it to the curb yet when I realized my tablet was still in the cab. I turned around and it was already gone. Two days later, I still have not gotten it back, and doubt that I will, luckily a lot of what was on there is also in an external hard drive AND in my lap top. I am not real trusting of cloud storage, I know some people swear by it but most of the people I know from the computer security community are not too trusting of it and since I tend to make politically volatile images, I stay out of the clouds as much as possible.
Having multiple back ups like this has made it much easier to pick up the pieces and carry on. Yes I did lose SOME data, we live and learn, with my back ups and tenacity in hand I continue on my path in photo journalism.
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