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Are my hard drives + SD cards + cloud portfolio good enough backup up plan?
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I am a hobbiest, thus haven't really invested in a backup solution until now.

And after i maxed out my 1TB Macbook with all my RAW photos, i realized that my macbook being were all my RAW files are stored isn't good idea.

So my process is now the following:

  1. shoot a vacation/trip on an SD card
  2. import all RAW photos into lightroom classic
  3. organize them into date sorted directories with names
    1. i.e. /2025/01.25.2025 - Maui & /2025/01.28.2025 - Kauai
  4. copy the above directories of RAW files into External Hard Drive 1 to create a backup of the original RAW files.
  5. edit photos in lightroom
  6. delete RAW photos from lightroom classic that I don't like, so I keep the storage at a minimum on the Macbook
  7. backup the Lightroom catalog (photos & edits) onto External Hard Drive 2 to create a backup of the lightroom that lives on my macbook
  8. export and "publish" edits that i really like to my cloud website that I pay for storage on.
  9. label the SD card and place it into my SD storage box in the event that all my electronics are ruined in a flood.

If i lose my macbook, I have my external hard drives at home (they never leave the office). If my house burns down, I have my macbook. If my macbook was in the house when it burned down, I have my cloud website with all my good photos.

I'm asking if the above seems like a good backup plan because I wanna solve this problem once and never think about it again.

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