OneKnoxFamily

 We’ve been using Flickr Pro for almost 2 whole years now and I’m here to tell you there’s no safer/easier/cheaper way to backup your family’s digital photos to an offsite facility.  It’s the “offsite” part that makes it so safe.

Of course, we all know to back up all of our data and photos regularly and have scheduled backups running every night to make sure we don’t loose anything, right?  Well, actually - that’s only partly correct.  We all know to back up everything, but only the geekiest 5% actually make it happen.  Chances are you’ll be part of the 95% until something bad happens and you lose stuff.

School papers, scanned reciepts and email is one thing, but losing your family digital photo album could be devistating.  You cannot reproduce those images unless they are backed up.  Just burning them to a CD may not be enough.  House fire’s happen everyday and they’ll burn up the photo CD backups in your desk drawer just as fast as they burn up your PC’s hard drive.  If you don’t have your photos backed up somewhere other than your house, you are taking a huge risk.  And trust me, if something bad does happen - it will take years for your wife to forgive you.

This is where Flickr comes in.  All you have to do is sign up for a Flickr Pro account - under $25 per year and you’ll get unlimited storage space for all your digital photos.  Plus, they’re accessible online via any internet connection from anywhere in the world.  If you’re hard drive crashes, laptop is stolen, or your house burns down - your photos are backed up online, no worries.

Don’t like the idea of all your personal family photos being on the Internet for the world to see, don’t worry.  You can set the permissions on each photo individually or set your entire account to private, meaning only your login and password can see the images. 

Don’t wait until something bad happens and you lose 2 months or 2 years worth of photos.  Get a Flickr Pro account, give it as a gift or sign up for a free Flickr account and take it for a testdrive.