Flickr: A photo archive & backup

April 10, 2009

I’ve always worried about losing data mostly since my backup drive died when Claire was an infant, and I lost the video footage of my parents meeting her for the first time. I now back up doubly. I have another drive that is stuff that just won’t fit on my hard drive, then another that’s a drive for just media. Each year I shoot a ton of images, and I fill up my hard drive on the MBP by fall.

But suddenly the other day I realized that really I don’t need to worry about images as much. See, I use Flickr. I’ve been using Flickr for a few years, and guess what? It’s my photo back up. I can download the original shot anytime I want from Flickr. In all actuality unless Flickr dies, I have a full backup in the cloud. Don’t I? Alan wonders what that’s like with Yahoo’s financial woes, but neither of us think Flickr is going anywhere. Good thing, too.

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