Lost photos on my PC

[another view]

This is why I keep a copy of all my images on a slave drive on my computer.

I'm doing an external HD and also copies on CD. When my internal HD failed last winter, somehow a bunch of images got wiped off the external too. Don't know how it happened, but the fact is that it can happen. Sounds like you know what you're doing but it's scary!

[Arctirus]

My external harddrive is kept at work in case my house were to burn down or something so I really only bring it home after I have something significant to back up. I have a dvd archive as well but I only update that every six months.

I think for my new disaster recovery plan I'll keep a removable drive at home which receives nightly backups then swap that with one kept offsite once a week.