How to back up photos?

And i thought i took loads of photos.

An option for you seems to be to buy an external hard drive. You can get them up to 750Gb quite cheaply now.

Whether or not you get an HDD If you have a laptop with you can burn them to disk (Hard drives/flash can break at any time. You never know when. It might not happen at all, but if it does you'll be protected)
eg
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hdd+external&x=0&y=0

You should find that enough. If not, you can always buy another hdd :-)

Get them burned on CD or DVD while you're on the road at photo places - cheap and easy. Just remember to test the discs before deleting the files on your card. You can either carry the discs with you or mail them home.

Back that up with dumping them on flickr or picasa when you find speedy and cheap high speed internet.

I have a small travel hard drive with slots for memory cards. I also had a laptop but it was better for me to have that hard drive because my computer was old and had no space for storage and I could bring the drive with me for a daytrip when I knew I'd take lots of photos (safari, gorillas etc.).

If you're taking that many photos you'll have so many CDs to be burned at cafes... I didn't find too many places outside the West burning DVDs. I'm crazy about backups so I actually burned CDs of my photos (on my own laptop) and sent them home along the way as a backup of my hard drive.

If your lap top dorsnt have much storage then you should buy a portable external drive (generally available at up to 250GB now (the 750/1000GB ) ones are full size and too heavy for a long trip. If you are looking to have a music player as well a Archos A605 is a great option with 160GB hard drive ad full music and picture capabilities. if you are travelling for such a period of time it would also be wise to burn a DVD and mail it back home now and then in case your stuff gets stolen or your hard drive fails.

Wade

Thanks everyone! We were hoping there was some kind of quick and easy, magical fix - but I guess that was a pipe dream. Since we're traveling on bikes, we are hoping to keep stuff and weight to a minimum, but we'll check into hard drives.

Hi, Why don't you use Flickr (www.flickr.com) , that's what we have done since we have started travelling and we found it brilliant.

I think of SD cards as rolls of film. You can get 2 Gig cards for peanuts these days via the internet. Buy a dozen, they're cheaper, far smaller and lighter than a portable hard drive. If you get a chance to burn to CD or DVD, take it and send the CD/DVD home as backup.

You can open several Gmail accounts at about 6 Gb each...

If your pictures are around 1Mb each, than you can store around 1000 pictures on 1 Gb. And maybe you should be more selective. Nobody likes watching slide-shows of over 1000 pictures. Bellieve me.

Ahhh... that gmail option might be a good idea!!

As for the SD cards - any suggestions on brands to look at?