Dogman
Veteran
I'm not trying to back up commercial images but my personal photos are very important to me. Several years ago a series of power failures or power spikes or some other type of electrical glitch hit the area. The Mac survived intact but both my Time Machine and the secondary HD I used to backup photos were toasted. Since then, I've been wary of any really reliable backup procedure.
Nevertheless, I started manually backing up my photos with portable hard drives that I didn't keep plugged in 24/7. I've continued to use this practice. Currently, I'm using an Apple Time Machine for general backups and a total of three portable hard drives for my photos. Additionally, every photo that I consider important is printed on high quality fine art matte paper and the prints are stored in museum boxes.
None of these methods really give me total confidence but, then again, I'm paranoid.
Nevertheless, I started manually backing up my photos with portable hard drives that I didn't keep plugged in 24/7. I've continued to use this practice. Currently, I'm using an Apple Time Machine for general backups and a total of three portable hard drives for my photos. Additionally, every photo that I consider important is printed on high quality fine art matte paper and the prints are stored in museum boxes.
None of these methods really give me total confidence but, then again, I'm paranoid.