Software to backup pictures with recompression

Hi,

I am looking to backup my digital pictures to my FTP/web space online.
However, I have more than 4 Gb of pictures, most of my pictures are taken at
2 or3 mega pixels, so the individual files are quite large. What I would
like to do is recompress all the pictures to a lower resolution (say
800x600) before the backup, so the size is much smaller.

This way, I can achieve backup and still at least have the pictures viewable
at screen quality in case my PC fails.

Does anybody know a tool/utility, able to do batch processing/recompression
of pictures, and also able to work accross sub-folders automatically?

Thanks,
Tom

Tom wrote:

Hi,

I am looking to backup my digital pictures to my FTP/web space online.
However, I have more than 4 Gb of pictures, most of my pictures are taken
at 2 or3 mega pixels, so the individual files are quite large. What I
would like to do is recompress all the pictures to a lower resolution (say
800x600) before the backup, so the size is much smaller.

This way, I can achieve backup and still at least have the pictures
viewable at screen quality in case my PC fails.

Does anybody know a tool/utility, able to do batch
processing/recompression of pictures, and also able to work accross
sub-folders automatically?

I suggest that you forget this idea. What is the point of backing up a
degraded quality of your pictures? If your HD crash, you will NEVER get
your original pictures back.

4 Gb is not much. You can make a backup of all your pictures on one DVD.

I got 80 Gb of pictures (~ 3 years). I use both DVD and DLT for backuping up
my pictures.

--
Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
http://www.dahl-stamnes.net/Foto/

"Tom" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am looking to backup my digital pictures to my FTP/web space online.
However, I have more than 4 Gb of pictures, most of my pictures are taken
at 2 or3 mega pixels, so the individual files are quite large. What I
would like to do is recompress all the pictures to a lower resolution (say
800x600) before the backup, so the size is much smaller.

This way, I can achieve backup and still at least have the pictures
viewable at screen quality in case my PC fails.

Does anybody know a tool/utility, able to do batch
processing/recompression of pictures, and also able to work accross
sub-folders automatically?

Thanks,
Tom


A better approach is to backup to CDs or DVDs, even make more than one copy.
I put each day's work on a CD or more than one CD, then consolidate a week's
work on a DVD.

Servers crash. I have had to upload my backup files to my server more than
several times.

Keep the original files.

That is my opinion.

Tom wrote:
Hi,

I am looking to backup my digital pictures to my FTP/web space online.
However, I have more than 4 Gb of pictures, most of my pictures are taken at
2 or3 mega pixels, so the individual files are quite large. What I would
like to do is recompress all the pictures to a lower resolution (say
800x600) before the backup, so the size is much smaller.

This way, I can achieve backup and still at least have the pictures viewable
at screen quality in case my PC fails.

Does anybody know a tool/utility, able to do batch processing/recompression
of pictures, and also able to work accross sub-folders automatically?

Thanks,
Tom

Thanks, I am backing-up my PC files to DVDs, but I also like to have an
online backup (encrypted), in case there is a fire at home for example. I
know I could have the DVDs offsite also, but it's more maintenance and DVDs
are not necessarily reliable anyway.

The internet provider where my website is hosted is very reliable.


"Rudy Benner" wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am looking to backup my digital pictures to my FTP/web space online.
However, I have more than 4 Gb of pictures, most of my pictures are taken
at 2 or3 mega pixels, so the individual files are quite large. What I
would like to do is recompress all the pictures to a lower resolution
(say 800x600) before the backup, so the size is much smaller.

This way, I can achieve backup and still at least have the pictures
viewable at screen quality in case my PC fails.

Does anybody know a tool/utility, able to do batch
processing/recompression of pictures, and also able to work accross
sub-folders automatically?

Thanks,
Tom


A better approach is to backup to CDs or DVDs, even make more than one
copy. I put each day's work on a CD or more than one CD, then consolidate
a week's work on a DVD.

Servers crash. I have had to upload my backup files to my server more than
several times.

Keep the original files.

That is my opinion.

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:53:44 +0100, "Tom" wrote:

Does anybody know a tool/utility, able to do batch processing/recompression
of pictures, and also able to work accross sub-folders automatically?

Irfanview, freeware, will allow you to batch resize to virtually any
size you want. It will also allow you to use options to sharpen,
lighten, etc. during the process. It can also work across
subfolders.
www.irfanview.com
--
jimbok

Rita Ä Berkowitz wrote:

Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote:

I got 80 Gb of pictures (~ 3 years). I use both DVD and DLT for
backuping up my pictures.

While I agree that DVD is a great cheap backup for everyday needs for the
basic user, a DLT and AIT drive is not only slow, but also can be more
problematic and less reliable due to premature tape failure. This is why
we totally abandoned ours to use U320 SCSI drives for our backup media of
choice. They are extremely fast, reliable, and very inexpensive.

DVDs don't offer that long life-time as DLT. And I have never had any
problems with premature tape failure or any other failure.

--
Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
http://www.dahl-stamnes.net/Foto/

Tom wrote:

Thanks, I am backing-up my PC files to DVDs, but I also like to have an
online backup (encrypted), in case there is a fire at home for example. I
know I could have the DVDs offsite also, but it's more maintenance and
DVDs are not necessarily reliable anyway.

The internet provider where my website is hosted is very reliable.

Keep a copy of the DVD at some friends or rent a safty deposit box at your
local bank (which I do). You could keep a copy at work too.

--
Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
http://www.dahl-stamnes.net/Foto/