Comments on: Backup! Backup! Backup!

By: Brian Wood

Brian Wood — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:40:54 +0000

The rule of thumb as I have heard it around our IT department and other people I know of who work in IT is that CDR or DVDR media is not good for anything you want to store for over 2-3 years. With the price of external hard drives so low that seems to be the safest option.

By: Jason Young

Jason Young — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:32:17 +0000

Do you backup (check the folders) the people albums, too? I see this doubles the backup size. If I don’t include people albums will it have to rebuild faces again??

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:24:34 +0000

I am restoring pictures using backup discs I made with Picasa. Three of the four discs worked perfectly. Unfortunately, one of them seems to have a corrupted file. Once it hits this file in the restore process everything stops and it won’t restore the photos that follow. It won’t allow me to delete the corrupted file either.
Any suggestions?

By: Marvel

Marvel — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:07:56 +0000

Just a quick note, you should use DVD+R in preference to DVD-R disks if you drive supports them. The DVD+R format has additional error correction written to the disks which make them more durable and less likely to coaster. The only thing DVD-R disks are useful for is to copy DVD movies that you are playing back on a really old DVD player that doesn’t support DVD+R as well.

By: Andy May

Andy May — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:09:14 +0000

I used to back up all the images on the USB drive too. Somehow, I felt that it was too bad to let the images be lost on account of a USB malfunctioning. I went ahead and bought a pro account at Flickr. Too bad, it did not dawn on me that I could have used Picasa and save the 2 year cost I incurred.

Does not hurt to add a backup on Picasa too.

By: Chris Guld

Chris Guld — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:04:15 +0000

When you use Picasa’s backup command, create a New Set and choose the option to backup to a drive and folder rather than to a CD.

By: Chris Guld

Chris Guld — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:34:29 +0000

If I understand you right – you have your photos back in My Pictures and you don’t have the Picasa software installed. All Picasa edits are stored in the picasa.ini file that is located in the same folder as the pictures themselves. That file would be backed up any normal backup procedure. If you install Picasa now, and view your photos using Picasa, you should see the edited version.

By: Fiona R

Fiona R — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:28:06 +0000

Greetings Geeks,
I hope you can tell me what I did wrong and if it can be fixed:

I use Picasa to organize and edit my photos. I backed up my PC regularly to an external HD (using the utility that came with the HD).

My PC died.

When I “restored” my photos to my new PC I got the original pics which is great, but I lost all the edits I had made to them in Picasa. BTW, I only copied the original photos (not the Picasa software) when I did the restore (therefore, no .ini files).

Is there any hope for me?

Thank you,
Fiona

By: Chris Guld

Chris Guld — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:51:08 +0000

I would try the ‘stick’ in someone else’s computer and see what happens.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:07:06 +0000

Hello, Thank you for your reply. Tried your advice but to no avail. The computer doesn’t recognise the memory stick. Is all lost or can the ‘stick’ be fixed? Anna