With digital cameras replacing film cameras in a digital age, many do not know how to archive their photos taken with their digital camera. Storing your digital images is more than copying the images from your memory card to your computer. Keeping one copy of your images on your computer is extremely dangerous and many have learned this the hard way when they lose all their photos from a hard drive failure. In this article, you will learn how to properly and safely archive your digital images.

Your entire collection of beautiful photographs are in risk of being forever lost. All too often, people lose years of photographs due to improper archiving methods. With so many different ways of backing up photos, which one is right? Find out about the history of photo storage and learn how to store photographs for a hundred years.