Backup Strategy

Studio Backup Workflow: How to Archive Photos and Video So You Never Lose a Job
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Studio Backup Workflow: How to Archive Photos and Video So You Never Lose a Job

I’ll be honest: I didn’t get serious about my archive system until I almost lost an entire e-commerce shoot. One corrupted transfer, one drive that was “probably fine,” and suddenly I’m on the phone with a client explaining why I need to reschedule a product shoot that involved a rented space and a hired stylist. That was the last time I treated file management as an afterthought. Since then, I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit refining how media moves from card to archive, and I track the hours that system saves me the same way I track everything else: in a spreadsheet.

How I Stopped Living in Fear of Hard Drive Failure (And Built a Workflow That Actually Scales)
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How I Stopped Living in Fear of Hard Drive Failure (And Built a Workflow That Actually Scales)

I have backup drives for my backup drives. My colleagues find this funny until one of them loses a shoot. I’ve been color-coding storage drives and labeling them obsessively since my early days in commercial studios, and the habit has saved me more than once. So when I came across Watch the full tutorial on YouTube from Peter McKinnon, where he walks through exactly how a single rugged drive failure nearly took down his entire library, it hit close to home.