You’ve got your photos backed up, right? I mean, of all the data that you keep on your hard drive, your digital pictures are probably among the most precious—and the most irreplaceable. So keeping a backup of your pictures on an external drive is a good start, but what if the unthinkable happens, and you lose that backup too, thanks to fire, flood, or meteor strike?
It’s times like that—hopefully few and far between—that an offsite backup is crucial. 24x7digital’s new PhotoCopy application aims to make the process of backing up your photos easy, by using tools already at your disposal: iPhoto and photo-sharing site Flickr. PhotoCopy can automatically copy iPhoto albums of your choice, arranging them in sets and retaining keywords, titles, dates, descriptions, etc. Furthermore, any changes made to your iPhoto library will be automatically reflected in the backups on Flickr, so if you edit, add, or delete a photo, that will happen in your backup as well (though I presume there’s some way to safeguard against accidentally deleting your entire primary and backup, right?).
A license for PhotoCopy costs $20, and you’ll need a Pro Flickr account to take the most of it. If you want to give it a try, you can run the demo version, which has most of the same features, but watermarks your pictures until you purchase a license.
