Backing up photos

[mama nay]

How often do you do it? Santa just brought me a new external hard drive? Has anyone ever used one? Do you like it? Did you find it reliable? I have no idea where to begin with it and it's just sitting there staring at me. I feel bad to cause dh actually listened when I said I needed to back-up all those photos.

[quadmom]

I back mine up all the time! Burn them on two CD's...keep one at our home and take one to our vacation home. I figure both houses wouldn't burn down at the same time right?????

[Jamijo]

We just got one also and I am clueless. My BIL just put all of our photos on it and now I am trying to figure out how to get them so I can print a couple out. My dh is playing a game with our youngest dd and I don't want to bother them.

[CreativeChaos]

I burn mine to cd's too. It is easier to manage for me, I label them by dates and then make a small list of the occasions or subjects of the photos on the cd.