I’m not the most organized photographer, but in the last photo trips (and doesn’t need to be long ones) there are two habits I’ve been religiously maintaining:As soon as I return import the photos and run all my backup jobs, so that they’re safely stored,And don’t delete immediately the photos from my SD cards and travel backup storage (I usually keep two copies of the photos while on the road), not out lazyness but to have yet another backup in case the imports and culling go wrong, sometimes it remains there for weeks or even months. Today the later came to my rescue: somehow I deleted two days of Iceland photos, and that error already had propagated to my main backups. What could have been a disaster was just an annoyance of having to import those days again from the “original” storage devices, and eventually I’ll have to go through all those photos again.Moral of the story: backups do save your ass, and the more you have the merrier!
