Hi Luiz, Have you had DVD discs fail? I have a lot of backups on DVD, and thus far none have failed. Some are six or seven years old. I don't do mirrored drives, but I backup all important photos on a second drive. So far, I haven't lost anything, but Charles' message is motivating me to get caught up on my DVD backups. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Luiz Felipe" <[email protected]> > ... ouch... > > Charles, I understand your feelings. I'm up to re-scan a lot of stuff lost > due > to media failure, and right now I don't trust dvdr media enough to depend > just > on them. Guess I'll be using mirrored HDs eventually, but right now I can't > afford. Unfortunately some of the older stuff is not where it should be... > and > many of the subjects aren't around anymore. > > Luiz Felipe > luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br > http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ > > > > > Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:08:30 -0600, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> escreveu: > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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.
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