Offsite storage for backups

I hear and read of many people storing DVD/CD backups of their pix "offsite". I'm at the point where I need to also look into that.
So, where do the "pros" store their backups for safekeeping?

cheers,
jim

Buy an external HD, or Internal HD, and backup all your photos and even a copy of all your programs and a mirror of your OS, and then take it to the safety Deposit box.

Yep, you can fit a lot of DVDs in a safety deposit box.

Or.. your sister's house.. (ei family or somone you can trust) etc...

Of course a safety deposite may be "safer" ... but the idea is to have "off site" back up in cae something happens to your on site originals....

A copy at your relatives house or in your desk at work essentially serves the same purpose as a safety deposite in this case,.. and is hardly likely to be damaged at the same time as the one in your own home...

Jim- Pick a long time friend or relative you are on speaking terms with. Take'em to lunch a couple times a year and store your DVD's in a cool dry place at thier house. Make it a semi-annual event and stick to it.

For your on-site stuff, as suggested, an external hard drive, and make your DVD's from there. That way you are making scheduled moves from your internal - to external - to DVD - to offsite. Greatly improves your odds against breakdowns/fire/flood/​vandalism/accidents.

Strongly suggest you DO NOT use rewriteable CD/DVD's. There are long term readability issues.

I keep a copy of my photos on my hard drive at work, i'll have to stop doing that soon because I have about 50GB of photos, and growing... i'll probably end up getting a large external hard drive and using that instead, storing it at work. I don't trust CDs or DVDs.