I had a chance to help a family that lost their information due to a hard drive crash. They had no backup plan in place at the time.
There were no documents that they needed on the computer and the hard drive replacement was done under warranty. They still had the pictures they had taken on their digital camera’s SD card. We were able to load them back up again.
This got me thinking about using SD cards as a way to keep the pictures after you import them into your camera.
Don’t Delete the pictures from the card.
Just put the card away in a safe place after it is full. Maybe go ahead and slide the lock tab on the card to lock.
This will not work for every family, i.e. the obsessive photographer with terabytes of pictures, but for many families spending $10 buying a new SD card