Most photographers have a backup drive in the way of a portable hard drive or photo storage device, but keeping it in your camera bag or luggage is not the safest place. If your bag gets stolen or lost you have also lost the backup of your photos which if it was a wedding, you would have an angry bride and groom to deal with, and your name is going to be mud!
If you are staying in a hotel consider leaving it in the safe (put it in a bag first, so it does not look like a hard drive containing valuable information as some countries still have suspicions of espionage)
If you can’t keep it in the hotel safe, keep it on your persons, ideally in a fastened pocket or waist pack or any where else but your travel luggage or camera bag.
It is also worth considering some sort of cloud storage if you have your Laptop with you, but this does depend on whether you are paying for WiFi/internet and how fast it is, as well as how many big files you have to upload.
My preference is to upload my unedited RAW files straight to my website as well as to my HyperDrive on returning home and all is well, I just delete the RAW’s from my website
Also don’t forget to put copies of any document you may need like, passport, insurance, tickets, receipts, visas, itinerary etc. on to this hard drive as well!
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