SD Card backup - for when going on holiday ?

Snow-Munki · 23 Mar 2011 at 08:53

Hi,

Off on holiday in a couple of months for 2 weeks so plan to take loads of photos.

Normally, as I get paranoid I'll loose the SD card or it becomes corrupt, I'll backup all the photos every night onto a laptop.

However will be a pain to take my laptop over so was thinking if there was anything other method. Online really isn't an option as it will be potentially 20gb of photos.

Thanks,

Auraomega · 23 Mar 2011 at 09:31

There are devices that will automatically back up everything on an SD card, one such device is the Epson P-7000, although these are old and difficult to come by, not to mention expensive. I'm not aware of any newer models but I'm sure there has to be some.

Eddie182 · 23 Mar 2011 at 10:14

If you can't take a laptop/netbook I'd say go for lots of small memory cards, that way if you do loose one it'll only have a few photos on it rather than your whole holiday.

Far from ideal I know, but I've not seen a good alternative. Of the few card backup solutions I've heard of reading books/magazines, none have very good reviews.

robj20 · 23 Mar 2011 at 10:18

I use my Iriver H340 for this, works as a host device as well as my MP3 player.

MikeHunt79 · 23 Mar 2011 at 10:25

An iPad can download photo's if you have the connection kit. Smaller than a laptop but a little pricey if this is the only thing you'd use it for...

rG-tom · 23 Mar 2011 at 13:32

a hdd is more likely to break than an SD card, go for more sd cards.

Auraomega · 23 Mar 2011 at 15:09

I imagine you could swap the HDD out for an SSD... although now we're getting into stupid costs