Strategy plan on backing up thousands of photos to DVD?

I apologize in advance if this is a repeated question. I literally have thousands of images backed up on CDs & DVDs over many years. Can someone share their ideas on creating & organizing all my photos to iDVD or iphoto discs? I'd like to create slideshows with music. Thanks

You'll need to get those photos onto your HD first. Decide what app you want to use to make the slideshows and then go from there.
Some apps to consider: iPhoto's, iMovie, on every Mac sold, as is iDVD.
Others, in order of price:
PhotoPresenter $29
PhotoToMovie $49.95
PulpMotion $129
FotoMagico $29 (Home version) ($149 Pro version, which includes PhotoPresenter)
Final Cut Express $199
It's difficult to compare these apps. They have differences in capability - some are driven off templates. some aren't. Some have a wider variety of transitions. Others will have excellent audio controls. It's worth checking them out to see what meets your needs.
However, there is no doubt that Final Cut Express is the most capable app of them all. You get what you pay for.
Regards
TD

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Based on my limited experiance JustCloud does have a good backup of your photos but not of your library and if you had to use it you woul dstart over from scratch importing your unedited, unmodified photos - for me that is not an acceptable backup
If I have the Time Machine backup do I need cloud service?
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regards

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Hi,
As Mr. Venu said along with the Key-date option the scheduling start date and call horizon is also important.
Reg,
NNR

HT201250 Hello i am using TimeMachine to back-up entire Mac image (data + system) on an usb-local drive. I would like (on top of it) add a specific plan to back up some files on a remote network drive. Does TimeMachine support multiple back-up plans ? How

Hello i am using TimeMachine to back-up entire Mac image (data + system) on an usb-local drive. I would like (on top of it) add a specific plan to back up some files on a remote network drive. Does TimeMachine support multiple back-up plans ? How ?

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Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
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Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to another one...
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Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
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