Good site to back up photos when travelling

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone can recommend a good site to back up photos (from my digital camera) when I'm travelling.

I used to use flickr a while ago, but it seems a bit slow and it loads and displays all the images (also im not sure what the compression / resizing is like these days - e.g. facebook apparently re-sizes and degrades the quality of jpegs uploaded to it)... I'm just basically looking for some site / hosting place that's easy to access from an internet cafe and lets me dump the content of my memory cards, so if I lose my camera or it's pinched at least I wont lose all my pics!

Cheers for any tips!

I use picasa to organise my photos. Download it from http://picasa.google.com/
It uploads your photos automatically to your album on picasaweb
here's mine: http://picasaweb.google.com/tetsujin1979/

there's a facebook plugin to upload each album to your facebook page as well

Cheers for the info, what's the compression like on piccassa?

Pretty good, you can select it when you upload.
I take photos at high resolution, and then compress them when they're uploaded, but there's an option in the web album to view at the original size.

I dont use a website to backup but is www.flickr.com any good? Seems to be popular

some people swear by flickr, and it was the first really successful photo sharing site.
There's a lot more competition now, and it comes down to personal choice.
I use picasa because I'm google's b!tch

Do you have to install both flikr and piccassa ? The reason I ask is I'll probably just be dumping the photos onto the net via an internet cafe pc etc, so I'm not sure how easily I'll be able to install stuff on the PC.

No and no. If you're just dumping the photos onto the net as backup, an FTP hosting account and FireFTP or Filezilla should do you just fine. If you're cheap, just upload them to your Gmail account as attachments!

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Originally Posted by dahamsta

If you're cheap, just upload them to your Gmail account as attachments!

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If you are doing this just try and zip them first with WinZip or something.

Sorry for the pedantry, but if the images are JPEGs, there's very little point in doing this, the saving will be minimal. JPEG images are already compressed and they're difficult to compress much more, it's the inherent flaw in the format.

I'd just get a little USB-powered portable hard drive, two if you are worried about losing one. You are going to have to go to an internet cafe anyway to send them to the web, so you'll have the use of a computer.

Uploading memory cards of images to the web will be time and money consuming.

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Originally Posted by atfconline

I'd just get a little USB-powered portable hard drive, two if you are worried about losing one.

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This- it's much easier and straightforward to do.

Sure it'd be cheaper and lighter to buy a half-dozen small SD cards, and you still have the problem that if the luggage gets nicked, they're gone.