I previously backed up everything to an external hard drive, then did a second backup to DVDs.
The external hard drive was updated daily, the DVDs were updated monthly. Recently, during a rare cleanup effort, I mounted a couple of the old DVDs to check them out. Only one could be read. I don't know if this is because I have a new DVD player or if the disk went bad. The old DVD recorder is long gone so I can't check that out. No loss, because I switched to using dual backups to a pair of Hard drives about a year ago for sheer convenience. I'll likely shred the DVDs to make shelf space. Anyway, no more DVDs for backup. Too much trouble and now I'll always doubt how long they will last. GS On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net -- 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.
