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Having worked as a wedding photographer for quite a few years - I was pretty insane about backups. There’s nothing like the dread of a failed card or drive that can cook a critical chunk of/or an entire wedding.

I probably overdid the backups. I’ve carried some of these drives for 16+ years. Finally decided that it’s time to do a cleanup before these drives die (and they are really heavy as a collective). To date, no one has requested my backups.

I just assumed that people would store important and expensive photos for years - but turns out that after the big day is done. Unless they go and print or have an album made - life happens, computers die, people move, and they lose these important memories and mementos.

Maybe it’s an artifact of the digital age, that we just simply don’t value digital goods in the same way we do physical ones. Nonetheless, it was an interesting learning for me.