Backing up on location is essential, especially on multi-day jobs. I recently had a friend who was out here on an assignment for a big client. His main drive’s images got deleted, and his backup drive failed. Luckily after a couple grand, a few weeks in the drive hospital, and some serious sweating, he was lucky to recover his data. He was mortified as any of us would be.
Today my crew will embark on a 3 week job in Latin America for Nike. We will be going to Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Sao Paulo. We will have 4 shoot days in each city. I thought I’d share a little bit about my on-location backup system.
We have 3 LaCie 160gb Ruggeds, and 4 SmartDisk 120gb drives. The Ruggeds will be our primary drives. We will double up the images and keep two copies traveling with us. At the end of shooting in each city we will fedex a drive with all the images from that city back to the office here in LA.
Total, we will have 3 copies of all the images by the time we return to the states.
Love your site!!…Nothing like hanging out with one of the top talents in commercial photography!
i just love those LaCie drives. they have been great work horses on the road for me as well.
i just love those LaCie drives. they have been great work horses on the road for me as well.
hi. just found your site, and am loving it. i also really appreciate that you share snippets of your work flow. how did you get to where you are? (i love hearing about the pathways of good photographers).
inspired.
liz