[Leica] Question Re Backing Up to External Hard Drives

[rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)]

Thanks for the quick responses.

I am not sure I am a Luddite but I am definitely ignorant.

As I understand Retrospect (don't know about other programs) it does the 
backing up in some language or compression of its own.  Thus to restore 
what it has backed up you need to have the software at hand to expand or 
read the backups.

If I just copy over the images to these external drives I won't have to 
worry about that.

This would be slower of course but much easier for me to deal with.

KISS, as Ted might say.

What I want to back up / store / save are photographs. I can remember to 
do the backups most every time I am working with my photographs, I 
think, which for me is (unfortunately) not nearly as often as I would 
like.  Think of it as putting the negatives back in their glassines 
after a printing session.

Does this make sense?

--Bob