From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > It's only happened to me once, and I only lost 12 files, but I know > exactly what you are feeling. > > After that experience, I built my current redundant backup system, > based on dual independent backup drives. After every backup run, I > have three copies of all the data, which poses a very very low > probability risk of losses in the most catastrophic failure situation. > > Relax, accept what is, move forward. > > Godfrey > > Quoting David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... I mentioned the other day that I had a hard drive problem. I turns > out the head had died. I took the hard drives (RAID 0 configured > system) to a data recovery company in the hope that my files could be > retrieved. I just got a heart breaking call. All the platters were > scratched & there is no chance of recovering the data. ... I started saving my negatives about 1968 when I got my first 35mm camera.
By 1996, I had a pretty good archive of negatives , along with contact prints, and transparencies, with everything in either glassine envelopes or archival sleeving. All boxed up nice and neat in guaranteed acid free storage boxes. Hurricane Fran hit & the roof came off my house. All my nicely, neatly stored negatives and transparencies were buried under wet plaster and fiberglass insulation for several weeks thereafter until I could clean up and make repairs. I occasionally find negatives or mounted slides that somehow escaped inclusion in my nice, neat, carefully maintained, well organized archive. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
