How many pix have you taken with your G-series camera?

I've had my G3 since December '02. It has gone through some rough times and places along my vacations, hiking and geocaching and as a result, lens mechanism has broken once (but only once). During that breakdown lens mechanism didn't focus and when camera was turned off, lens mechanism wouldn't retract back into camera. It was fixed (within 24h) by twisting lens mechanism a bit.
I can't give you exact number of pictures that has been taken with it, since during its early days I accidently placed CF card from my older ixus into it and my counter made little jump. However, I can guarantee that I've taken more than 10,000 pictures with it. From that collection, I've labeled 3507 pictures as images that needs to be kept in two separate machines and burned to CD-Rs for offsite backups. While they might not be master pieces, I want to make sure that I won't lose them due to stupid mistakes/accidents.

Since I've had my G2 since it came out, probably over 10 GB worth of images.

I just hit 3000

I have almost 7 GB of images on about 3100 files taken, thus far.

Woah - does that make me king of the hill?

8464 (yesterday) since purchase March 29, 2004. That makes for more than one thousand images per month. Of course, there were about five trips in there, twice to the US, once to Switzerland, once each to the French Atlantic and French Alps. I have a feeling I'll have rolled the counter over at the latest by then end of the year.

What happens then? Do I start erasing my old files in the /temp directory when I add the new ones? Yikes, better take a look at the manual!

K

Mine hit IMG_9900, then reset to IMG_0001, however the directory numbers on the CF cards are now in the 200's. BTW now running at 1754+9900=11654! That is in about one year, so the 1000 a month fits me as well!

Should any duplicate files be deleted from the hard drive? (i.e do you overwrite the former files) I would think once I got up to 9999 images, the hard drive would be well-saturated with space and it's time to make room..........

I faithfully put images on CD-R's but like to have them in the PC for quick access.

I sort all my photos into directories named like this:

2004-11-30 Visit to the Beach

That way when I sort them they are sorted by date. I toss anything not worth keeping such as blury ones or only keeping the best out of a run at rapid fire.

I keep all my images on a RAID (Mirror) pair of 120GB drives, so if one fails I don't loose them, then I copy them to a removable 60GB once a month which I keep offsite (at work). A little paranoid, but worth it to protect the images!

Be careful with CDR's, they can fail. I used to copy to two CDR's, and not keep a PC copy (short on disk space), I frequesntly found one of the disks would fail, even if they were stored correctly and were good quality. This is a known issue, not sure if it has been addressed yet. Here is a link on teh topic:
http://www.cdfreaks.co​m/news/7751

I read about that issue. Nothing seems safe, does it?

Here is the 11,000th photo taken with my G3:

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Mutliple and redundant backups on multiple media (good quality CD-R, DVD-R, Hard Disk, Online Archive) in multiple physical locations serves me well.

I use TDK or Verbatim CD-R to do regular backups.
I use Ritek G04 DVD-R to do 6 month backups.
I use a 120GB Samsung HDD to do regular backups.
I keep two copies at home (CDR, DVDR, HDD) and one at my parent's house (CDR, DVDR).
I update the media as new technologies come along.

I did some personal testing by writing a CD-R and DVD-R with the same file (Taco Bell Nutrition Info. Guide) multiple times to fill up these disks. I then set them outside in the hot Georgia sun for 1 month on each side. Basically cooked them and exposed them to all the elements and dirt. Once I brought them in, I cleaned them off with rubbing alcohol and tested them. They both worked fine. If the media I use can handle that, then I don't see them dieing on me that fast. Every 2-3 years, one should update all the media anyways, so there is nothing really to worry about unless you don't follow your own backup plan. 8)

I still listen to my first audio CD I bought in 1988, and it sounds as good, today, as it did back then.

Still, I agree with your methodology that ANYTHING can happen and copies are mandatory of all my CD-R's. I'd hate to see all that time and effort wasted simply because I was *cheap* and tried to scrimp for the sake of a few blank CD's....

CD's seen to last OK, it was something spooky about the CDR's. It didn't matter how well you cared for them, they just died after 6-18 months. I know this happens, I have seen it first hand a number of time (disks in a wallet in my top draw at work in a 24x7 air con building, andway as pradeep pointed out I could have probaly left them outside in the sun, and it wouldn't have made any difference!

On another plan A friend of mine and myself had, now were are in the world of relativly cheap DSL down here in NZ, we were going to copy each others stores over to each other via disk then keep them upto date via DSL. Poor mans replicated datacentres!

I'm up around 12,000 shots on my G5 since Jan. '04. Sorry, Kreego, got you beat there. On the other hand, the closest mine's been to another country was a day and a half on the Canadian side of Niagara falls.

All this talk of backups and failing CDRs has me feeling a bit queezy...

Kodak DC280 = 10,000 or so
Kodak DC3400 = 20,000 or so
Canon A95 = 1059
PRO1 = Still waiting for it for Christmas
Yes, I am a picture whore.

And I sort all my images by month, because today alone I took over 400 pictures in a few hours. (Todays can be found by going to my picture gallery, then clicking on page 5 which has the UE [Urban Exploring] thread and then clicking on Centralia 2004)

Then I backup to Sony AIT-2 Tape drive, of which I also mirror all to my laptop and other 3 servers and do a monthly DVD backup.