Best way to store files for long trip?

We took a 10 day vacation in late May / early June. 7 days was a cruise and then we spent a few extra days after in Tampa visiting friends and Busch Gardens.

On the cruise, especially on port days I would just unload my cards to my laptop and then copy files to an external drive. Out of the 10 days I ended up with nearly 2000 pictures and I'm still sorting through them all.

Jonta wrote in post #10519107
dovaka: It surprises me that you don't upload to an offsite server as well

i would except a lot of times i have no internet or only verizon mifi type internet. even if i had a good connection trying to upload 20-30gb a day would be an awful lot

dovaka wrote in post #10520449
i would except a lot of times i have no internet or only verizon mifi type internet. even if i had a good connection trying to upload 20-30gb a day would be an awful lot

True. Depends on location of course.

hollis_f: Ah, very good point I haven't seen mentioned yet.

Jonta wrote in post #10520523
True. Depends on location of course.

hollis_f: Ah, very good point I haven't seen mentioned yet.

if im on vacation i would typically upload the good ones to my site at night after i went threw them on my website but those are just med res jpgs of a very small percent of what i shot that day

Jonta wrote in post #10515590
Remember not to make the mistake of only backing up on one medium.

yeah, always keep your files in two or more locations.

hard drives are not 100% reliable.

if you have a laptop with your, then keep them on a laptop and burn a dvd for backup. ideal burn speed on 16x media is around 8-12x.

burning to low (2x-4x) on 16x dvds is not ideal.