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<blockquote data-quote="Eduard" data-source="post: 686456" data-attributes="member: 986"><p>I travel a lot for work and personal enjoyment. I'm also certified in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery so needless to say I take data protection pretty seriously. Coincidentally, my wife and I are off to Europe again this week for holiday. This is my approach to travel data storage which we will again utilize.</p><p></p><p>I have an 11" Macbook Air (~2.3 lb) with an upgraded SSD. I copy our image files daily from both of our cameras <em>and our phones</em>, as well as the tracklog from my GPS, to the laptop disk. Depending on our schedule, I may also import in Lightroom. I always make a second copy to an external portable storage device; I currently use a Samsung T3 which weighs less than 2 ounces. I usually have enough memory cards to not have to re-use during the trip. While in transit, my wife carries the T3 in a different bag than my laptop. When I travel for work, I'll keep the external storage in a separate bag as well.</p><p></p><p>The advantages of this approach is that I have multiple copies of our files (original media, laptop, external storage) in multiple physical locations without being cumbersome. Even in well known hotel chains, the data speeds are typically not fast enough to transfer a large amount of data to a cloud type data store. In the smaller, B&B type places we prefer, that simply isn't an option. Due to the limitations of data transfer, I still think local data copy is the most efficient approach.</p><p></p><p>This past summer we did a 3 country, 17 day family trip and outside of having to reuse one set of memory cards, no issue. I've used a variation of this approach for the last 8-10 years through (according to Tripit stats) 25 countries, 215 cities and just under 600,000 travel miles. Knock on wood, so far I've never lost an image. I'm serious about the so far because odds are it can happen at some point. This approach is reasonable, not burdensome and minimizes the impact.</p><p></p><p>Safe travels!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 686456, member: 986"] I travel a lot for work and personal enjoyment. I'm also certified in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery so needless to say I take data protection pretty seriously. Coincidentally, my wife and I are off to Europe again this week for holiday. This is my approach to travel data storage which we will again utilize. I have an 11" Macbook Air (~2.3 lb) with an upgraded SSD. I copy our image files daily from both of our cameras [I]and our phones[/I], as well as the tracklog from my GPS, to the laptop disk. Depending on our schedule, I may also import in Lightroom. I always make a second copy to an external portable storage device; I currently use a Samsung T3 which weighs less than 2 ounces. I usually have enough memory cards to not have to re-use during the trip. While in transit, my wife carries the T3 in a different bag than my laptop. When I travel for work, I'll keep the external storage in a separate bag as well. The advantages of this approach is that I have multiple copies of our files (original media, laptop, external storage) in multiple physical locations without being cumbersome. Even in well known hotel chains, the data speeds are typically not fast enough to transfer a large amount of data to a cloud type data store. In the smaller, B&B type places we prefer, that simply isn't an option. Due to the limitations of data transfer, I still think local data copy is the most efficient approach. This past summer we did a 3 country, 17 day family trip and outside of having to reuse one set of memory cards, no issue. I've used a variation of this approach for the last 8-10 years through (according to Tripit stats) 25 countries, 215 cities and just under 600,000 travel miles. Knock on wood, so far I've never lost an image. I'm serious about the so far because odds are it can happen at some point. This approach is reasonable, not burdensome and minimizes the impact. Safe travels! [/QUOTE]
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