Archiving

First post and all I'm not going to go into any thing too deep here. I guess just expand on what Haley was saying about backing up your information. I used to not be too concerned about it but, last year Jonathan in my sequence as story class had a major break down of his external hard drive, which led to the loss of large collection of his work, and images for projects, and after a scare with my computer over the summer, I make sure to back up everything. Luckily I didn't lose anything And as of yet I don't have an external hard drive, but I bought a big stack of DVDs last year to pull everything off my student desktop at school, ever since then I have been putting all my images on to DVD as a physical form of media storage that has an extremely low failure rate, sort of scratches. But keep the in a secure place, as well as write on each the contents of the disk for easy access to my files if the ones on my computer were to be lost or corrupted. I put the RAW file and the converted tiff file onto the same disk for the images more so that I don't need to re-convert the RAW file in to tiff again, maybe because I'm just lazy, and so that I have both formats if necessary it's unlikely that I'll ever need both, but I'm not going to take any chances and go ahead and keep both.