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One of the things that I’ve done since high school (at least that’s when I think I started) is consistently backup photos and videos.

Back then, I wasn’t taking as many photos – I was younger, digital cameras still saved things to flash cards, and the EXIF data would be inaccurate if the battery ever completely died.

Then, I had to reset it or just roll with inaccurate timestamps. And as a teenager, who cares when something was taken?

Unfortunately, I lost all digital media prior to 2003. That’s a story for another time, but it was the catalyst for regularly backing up my photos and videos in several formats and in several locations.

And though the process by which I do this has changed over the years, I still take the time to do it so much so that I now have 17 years worth of photos and videos organized my year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.

And all are taken from various digital cameras through every iteration of a cell phone I’ve owned.

Sure, our mobile operating systems do a good job of backing up and sorting things for us but I still like to have multiple backups of everything so at the end of each month, I still export everything from my phone and go through a process of backing everything up.

Though I’m always interested in how other people do it, I’ve also had some friends and colleagues ask what my process is. So that’s the purpose of this post.

More specifically: Here’s how I backup photos, videos, and organize them each month.