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The Family Photo Backup Plan Worksheet
A free, printable worksheet for backing up your family photos: where every copy lives today, the 3-2-1 plan you will actually finish, and the check that proves it works. Enter your email and you can download it right away.
Why family photos get lost
Almost nobody loses photos on purpose. They lose them because there was never a plan written down.
Photos in twenty places
Two phones, an old laptop, a drive in a drawer and three cloud accounts. Nobody knows what is where, so nothing gets protected.
Syncing is not backing up
If deleting on your phone deletes everywhere, that is a sync. One wrong tap or a full account can take years of photos with it.
Backups nobody has tested
Old drives fail silently and discs degrade. An untested backup is a hope, not a plan, and most people find out too late.
What's inside
- 1Find every copy: phones, computers, drives, discs, email and cloud accounts
- 2Check the places people forget, including retired devices and old accounts
- 3Build your 3-2-1 plan: three copies, two kinds of storage, one off-site
- 4Organize before you back up, with a folder structure you can actually search
- 5Turn it on and test it, with a twice-a-year check log you fill in
- 6Make sure someone else can get in, so the archive outlives the password
Written by Angie, Certified Photo Manager, Arizona and beyond.
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