Backing up files while travelling

[rexboggs5]

I am travelling in the US with a Canon 5D Mark II camera but without a laptop and without access to a computer with a DVD burner. What are the options for backing up my photos? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Cheers

Rex

[cheryltee]

I have a Sanho Hyperdrive ColorSpace - 80GB (not the ColorSpace O). It is a small device with a laptop hard drive in it and can read all kinds of memory cards. I never travel with my laptop so it works well for me and also has recovery software on it (which I've never tried) in case your card gets corrupt. It's not the most inexpensive solution but I prefer it to carrying the laptop, and I had some birthday money... There are other manufacturers of this type of device as well, Epson and Wolverine are names that come to mind and the prices vary greatly depending on the features.

[Tigershark]

I love my hyperdrive great little device

[dicktay]

On a recent vacation I used a pair of Vosonic/Wolverine personal storage devices for back up of the cards (~80GB) and did not re use the cards until I got back home and uploaded them to my PC. As it turned out I did not need the back ups.

[tgara]

This has been discussed ad nauseum. Do a search to find suggestions. That said, the Wolverine has gotten good reviews. So have the Epson photoviewers (P-6000 and P-7000), which act basically as a hard drive with a 4-inch viewscreen. The Epsons are expensive, tho.

[Jon]

Carry plenty of cards along with a portable storage device like the Epson, Wolverine or Hyperdrive. There are also devices that'll burn directly from your cards to a CD or DVD; Delkin used to make one called the "Burn-Away"; it's not currently listed on their website, but I often find Delkin-branded items that they don't list there. There are also (slow) USB bridge devices that will let you copy from one USB client, like a card reader, to another, like a hard disk. And the "Netbook" small laptops are in the same general price range as most of the off-line storage devices while letting you check e-mail and surf the web as well. I've been using this genre of computer for travel for the past several years.

[rexboggs5]

This has been discussed ad nauseum. Do a search to find suggestions. That said, the Wolverine has gotten good reviews.

Thanks, folks. I investigated the Wolverine and bought the 160GB version for $140 from B&H. It seems to do what I want, at a reasonable price.

Rex