1. Explain the purpose of backup and archive
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Backup and Archive
Learn to protect original and edited files with a 3-2-1 approach.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to protect original and edited files with a 3-2-1 approach
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why backup and archive matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to protect original and edited files with a 3-2-1 approach.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Map where your three copies will live and test restoring one file.
Safe and responsible practice: Keep untouched originals, document significant edits and confirm rights before publishing.
Practical activity
Complete and record this task
Map where your three copies will live and test restoring one file.
Good-practice checklist
Original files remain untouched
Export settings match the destination
Complete the practical activity for backup and archive
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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