On my last two vacations, I've brought along a memory card backup system called Flash-HD to Go from MediaGear. It is basically an external USB hard drive with mem card slots. You pop in a memory card, select it with some buttons on the Flash-HD, and it backs up the whole card to the internal hard drive.
The Flash-HD has worked great for me so far. Each time you back up a mem card, it creates a new directory on the hard drive, even if it is the same mem card you previously backed up. I like that kind of simple redundancy. You can then plug the drive directly in to your PC and copy the files over (if you want).
That said, I would never trust a single backup source. I never deleted any files from my mem cards. Rather, I used the Flash-HD as a pure backup solution in case my camera (with mem card) was lost or stolen. For this purpose, it seems perfect. I just backed up two camera's worth of mem cards every morning before venturing out for the day.
I bought the Flash-HD from Computer Geeks without an internal drive installed. I think I paid about $15 for it, and I used a spare 30GB drive I already owned. It is somewhat bulky, and does not run on battery power, so you need to remember to pack both the drive and the power supply in your suitcase.
Yeah…
Who needs close and shit.
Mikey, you are a geek.
Jimbo.
Yeah…
Who needs clothes and shit.
Mikey, you are a geek.
Jimbo.
