Storing Your Digital Images: General: Learn: Digital Photography Review:

If you value your digital images, you should have a proper backup system in place. In this article, we will look at two storage methods and some backup tips so that you can enjoy your images not only in the short term, but also much further into the future.

For once, I'm already doing what an article suggests.

I process images straight onto my powerbook - I have a scheduled nightly task that runs, and synchronizes my Pictures directory to my Linux server (using an application called rsync). This gives me two copies, one of which has the potential to be a few hours out of date. All my images are filed in chronological order, and I used folder labels to mark those that I think I'm finished with - once every couple of weeks I burn off the finished directories to DVD. Right now, I don't delete these ones from the Linux server - but I do from the powerbook - leaving me, in the end, 2 copies of every set - one on magenetic media in the Linux server, the other on DVD.

The main thing I'm lacking is a decent off-site backup. Something else to add to the list...