One drive failure should not delete a month of work. 3-2-1 backup: three copies, two media types, one offsite.

Workflow

Copy cards to working SSD immediately. Nightly clone to NAS or cloud. Archive finished projects monthly.

Naming

Date_topic_camera_take. Avoid 'final_FINAL2'.

Test restores

Quarterly restore one old project to verify backups are not corrupted.