Travel backup recommendations

[Amp34]

My parents are off round the world for a year and will be taking lots of snaps. They need some kind of backup solution and I'm thinking a combination of an external HDD and microSD cards. They can backup the photos on the HDD and then also back up the photos on microSD cards, which are easily small enough to send back to the UK when full.

The microSD cards would mean we could buy 5 16GB cards for £50 so it makes it pretty cheap.

Anyone had issue with this or got a better solution?

 

[Amp34]

Would need to be 100+GB and trying to upload 16GB of files at once in somewhere like SE asia is probably going to take forever!

 

[Amp34]

Netbook and two external drives backup memory card each night to one drive, then use synchtoy or similar to back up one drive to the other. When staying in a hotel drives can live in the safe when travelling one in each bag, mail home options always sound great but for me it's too much of a pain.

Personally I've never backed anything up on holiday I have a pile of small (8GB) memory cards that I swap to the safe every day or so minimises my loss from either a corrupt card or a theft.

This is my parents, fairly technologially inept and away for a year. They don't want to end up with just one copy of everything and have it stolen/lost and will not be taking a laptop and dozens of dries etc!

Needs to be simple, lightweight, cheap and work even in third world countries without 100Mb internet!