My Travel Photo/Video Backup System (Without a Laptop)

[@nickroush]

Are you going to give this backup system a try?

[@anoob.backer]

Clean process!

[@walterdibartolomeo3157]

Brilliant. I had used a WD passport wireless HDD which has a card reader, for ages. It recently died and could not find a similar arrangement. The hub is great. Time to get one. Thanks.

[@nickroush]

Glad I could help!

[@cobyleenaquin]

Wait a dang minute... you only have 700 subs at the moment???? bro your videos are amazing like how??? The KZbin algorithm needs to get to work.

[@nickroush]

Haha, I appreciate you man! Channels still new, just gotta get more and more videos out. Let the algo do it’s thing.

[@ross.gaspar]

Great idea. Iʻd live to skip the laptop next trip. Iʻll give this a go...

[@nickroush]

Make sure you test it at home before your trip! Thanks for watching!

[@samki_foto]

Currently my hobbyist setup is: Connect camera to android phone with USB-C cable. Transfer photos directly to Lightroom app or smartphone hd. This setup especially Lightroom app route needs internet for syncing. Other than this it works great. However I don't have offline backup setup for external HDD ready yet. I need a way to transfer photos from SD card to HDD. This setup you have or variation might be a good idea. Thanks for sharing it.

[@nickroush]

Going to the cloud is nice, but like you mentioned requires internet, and if you shoot raw files that’s alot of data to try and transfer to a cloud. Hope this setup helps! Whatever you decide make sure you test a bunch at home before any travel!

[@thomashill5768]

This is why I only get phones with micro sd card slots (Sony). Tiny anker card reader to fast micro sd card in phone. Then unplug card reader, plug in a drive and copy from micro sd to drive. Micro sd now acts as a cheeky back up. Just switch it out for a new one when it gets full.

[@nickroush]

I’m so deep in the Apple ecosystem I’ll never get out! lol. But your setup sounds sweet, like that you have micro sd backups as well.

[@thomashill5768]

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[@jeffellis6544]

Hey Nick. Nice system. When doing your daily backups, after reformatting the card, do you rename the DCIM folders ? Your method of copying and pasting the whole folder could result in REPLACING the previously copied folder from the day before. Or are there new folders on the hard drive for each day, and each camera body?

[@nickroush]

I do make a new folder for each new day and if I run backups more than once in a day I’ll do the date + “part 2” or something like that. Definitely make sure you’re pasting into a fresh folder.