Pile of photos without good backup plan

Lately I’ve been carrying a camera everywhere. Not an expensive DSLR one, mind you, just a cheap point-and-shoot one. I used it on everything. Literally everything. People, signs, plants, water, lights, leaves, cats, building. I’m not pretending to be an “artistic” photographer. I just feel like grabbing pictures. Like those “alay”, taking pictures every few minutes. The differences is that I’m not taking pictures of myself, with one arm holding the camera 45 degrees slightly left above my head .

The pictures are so-so; some good, some flat, some really bad. And it filled up the harddisk rather quickly. As I’m writing this post, quarter portion of my netbook harddrives is occupied by those pictures. It’s rather surprising since the filesizes are averagely small, but I guess I underestimated the quantities. I should really resizing them all, to save spaces and all that, but I got more important concern: Backup.

You see, I consider those pictures as important memories, snapshot of my life. Okay, that’s exaggarating, but losing them surely will irritating, at least. I’ve lost 4GB of photos by a formatting “accident”. Now that’s not merely irritating, it worth cursing. And I want to prevent it happen again.

The plan? Not much. I’ve been uploading some pictures to photosharing sites and my blog, but there’s a limit on that. And I’m just uploading a few good ones. The others still intact on the netbook, and I can only pray that no bad stuff happened on them. At least not until I get a good backup media. A good external harddisk will do, I think.

How about old school way: printing them all? While printing is cheap (viva custom infus printer!), there’s no way I’ll spend a big load of money on photo papers. And since there’s no point of printing them on plain paper, I think I’ll skip this alternative.