Originally posted by PDL Remove SD card from camera and lock it.
Put SD card in Wolverine portable HD and copy to HD - leave SD card locked.
Attach Wolverine to PC running RAID 1 disk array and copy images to disk.
Burn DVD archive of newly copied folder.
Unlock SD card.
I use IDimager as my DAM software. It has a built in downloader. When copying from my SD(HC) card, it will copy the files, then verify that the copy was made correctly, then remove it from the source (removing is of course an option). For backing up, it has the ability to copy the file to a backup directory in addition to my main photo store, but I do not use this option. I go through my photos only keeping the good ones. Then on a nightly basis my computer is backed up. Further, my brother is into photography, so on a nightly basis our backup drive is synced over the Internet, so I am an offsite storage for him and he for me. Thus, if anything were to ever happen to my computer or house, I would still have all my photos.
I feel that's a pretty safe way of doing things. I do intend on backing up all my photos on a few DVD's and putting a copy at my parents house as well, but have not gotten around to that as it's really not that urgent.
Jeremy