Backing up photos

[bwanaaa]

Backing up my photos while on a trip usually involves bringing a laptop and a card reader. This is ok but I am looking for a lighter weight solution. An iPad is nice but it only copies jpgs and even the 64 gig version is not big enough to store everything I shoot on a 10 day trip. Raw files can be big.

I found this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...A3E5K6GEFSI075
But it only allows data to flow through the iPad. That excludes raw files. Bh photo has these things called photo wallets but they are not appealing.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd just stick to the laptop, keep it in the hotel room and just run a backup at the end of the day.

Maybe you can also replace the laptop with a raspberry Pi and a small NAS enclosure with the card reader.

 

[Cerb]

The obvious answer is a lighter laptop. You're seeing the kind of thing that make people on forums like this laugh at tablets "taking over," and rightfully so: the software/hardware support still sucks, across the board. This is just one example of something for which there is no good excuse (Android is only slightly better, but you have to carefully pick your device, and sometimes root it even then, just to get USB storage devices to work).

 

[Carson Dyle]

Something like this?

http://www.digitalfoci.com/

 

[bwanaaa]

Something like this?

http://www.digitalfoci.com/

Nice!
Less expensive than this

http://www.hypershop.com/HyperDrive/UDMA-2/

 

[Berliner]

Backing up my photos while on a trip usually involves bringing a laptop and a card reader. This is ok but I am looking for a lighter weight solution.

Get the smallest laptop you can find, look for it to have a suitable card reader built in, if possible, and then put the biggest harddrive you can get in it.

That should give a rather cheap and small solution.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The obvious answer is a lighter laptop. You're seeing the kind of thing that make people on forums like this laugh at tablets "taking over," and rightfully so: the software/hardware support still sucks, across the board. This is just one example of something for which there is no good excuse (Android is only slightly better, but you have to carefully pick your device, and sometimes root it even then, just to get USB storage devices to work).

Oh the tablet world will find a way... with some kind of expensive dongle you'll have to buy separately. Apple will patent it, so it will only work with the ipad, and cost $200 for the dongle, and you'll have to pay $300 if you want it to work with a new ipad that will come out and have more storage.

Yeah I really hope the PC world sticks around. 😛 So much simpler and open.