Are you backing up your valuable photos? Our PCs and removable storage media are full with experiences and valuable moments. Digital photograph albums are exposed and if not backed up you lose thousands of pictures and a life of moments in only 1 hard disk crash.

What are backups? Backups are just copies of our files that are put in a secure place. Example of such copies can be pictures put on a DVD and placed at a mate’s house. The DVD could naturally be placed in your own house but that might be less safe since in the event of a tragedy in your house you could lose both your personal computer and the backups. A couple of years back backups were tough to make. You practically needed to be a PC guru to figure out backup software.

Today however backup was made simple employing a number of software solution and online service. Below you’ll be able to find 2 main options for backing up your photograph albums: burning them to a DVD / CD or using an internet backup service. Backing up to a DVD / CD is done by employing a DVD / CD writer drive and software that can burn files on such media. Backing up to a DVD / CD is an inexpensive solution. You can purchase such writer drives and software for potentially under a $100 and each DVD / CD media should cost in the cents. When backing up your photograph albums to a DVD / CD please ensure that you put the DVD / CD in a secure place a great choice would be somewhere out of your house perhaps a member of the family, a neighbor you can have faith in or a mate. Another thing to keep in mind with DVD / CD backups is that when you take new photographs you need to do not forget to refresh your backups. Usually unless your photo album is huge the best way to do those solely is to burn again to complete collection. As any other service backup it has found its way to the Net too.

A number of sites provide backup services today for everything from digital photograph albums to your word documents. Those services generally charge an once a month fee in the $10 to $20 but some supply a more limited service freely.

The idea behind the service is easy: instead of backing up to a DVD / CD you upload your photographs to a site and create copy there. The site stores the backups for you in a secure place a great distance from your personal computer. A broadband connection is required to use this option. There are lots of benefits to using a web backup service. You then point at the folder where your footage resides and the software takes it from there. It’ll confirm new files are uploaded to the backup service and that your backup is always fresh.