[...] > 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. [...] > > 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. >
Oops. Well, I've been dicing with disaster for a while now by not having a viable backup for my photographs, so I intend to buy a network drive to use as my main photo storage, then use the current usb drive as the backup, plugged into the network drive. I've no current plans to do any offsite backups, but portable drives are so cheap now that I may buy 2 or 3 to rotate as weekly offsite backups. Most of the Lightroom books that I've seen contain good, simple advice about backup strategies - well worth following. Bob -- 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.
