I fumbled my backup routine.... and now it's too late.
Normally, each month of images is in a separate folder on my harddrive. As space gets tight, I backup the folder to three different locations: A "disk image" out on an external harddrive, and two different DVD backups (one folder of discs at home, the other at work).
Earlier this year, I did some of this shuffling while at work (my first mistake) and I lost focus. I created a blank disk image to put all of the images into... and then got distracted. Seeing that I had the disk image out on the external harddrive, I burned DVD copies of that image and filed them.
I had, however, neglected a key step - putting any files into that disk image.
(Those of you with Macs know there are two ways to go about making a disk image - either an empty "CD/DVD Master" into which you can drop things, or "create disk image from folder". For the life of me I don't know why I didn't do it the last way - disk image from folder - as that would have copied everything in there as part of the creation).
Well, fast-forward to yesterday when I'm poking through my Lightroom library. Lightroom thought that my 2008_May images were still on the harddrive (they were not) so I went to tell LR that the images were now on this disk over here.... but that disk image was empty. In a stunning triple oversight, the two DVD images were perfect duplicates of the empty disc image.
My Time Machine backups only go back to early November - which is long after I nuked the directory from my harddrive. SO! The only images I have from my daughter's wedding (and countless other events) are the ones I have put online. I'm disappointed and angry and mad and have nowhere to direct that energy.
This is just a tale of caution. Be consistent. Check your backups. Make sure you really know what you have where. (sigh). I just had to tell someone who might understand just how disappointing this all is to me.
-Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
