Yet again I am rethinking how I keep my clients pictures safe. At the moment I have at least 2 copies locally and one copy on JungleDisk (which is working really well). But this is only of the JPGs. I now need to off load RAW files from 2009/10 to make space, so in effect put them into archive.

I was thinking of just dumping them out to an internal hard drive and then keeping that in my new fire and water proof safe in the house. How long do you think the data would be good for on a hard drive sat in a safe not powered up ??? It wouldn't be totally critical as the final JPG images would be backed up elsewhere onsite and on JungleDisk too.

Also, can anyone recommend any really good backup software ??? I'd really like something that backs up JPGs to one place and picks out the RAWs and puts them somewhere else.

Cheers

Cris