[WTSHNN]

Over the years I've adopted the following process for archiving files, especially pictures.

1) I never delete or reuse memory cards. Memory is cheaper than ever before so I bought a case designed for storing memory cards and keep them there. Like someone above said, think of those as the negatives.

2) all my files are on my computer and when I get a new one I transfer them over.

3) I have an external HD drive that everything is backed up to once a month.

Now a caveat. We had a high quality external hard drive fail on us at work last year. It was *very* important for us to retrieve the files off of it so a few months and a few thousand dollars later we were able to get about 85% of the files returned to us.

With the price of memory being so low it's a good idea to have redundancy and it's a good idea.

-Tim