I feel your pain. In Septmeber 2007 I lost 135GB of archives due to a HDD failure. They'd only partially been backed up and due to a schitzophrenic labelling system the backups were essentially useless for about 66% of the data (I couldn't associate the backups with the film archives due to stupidly labelling the digital stuff by incremental roll and the film by emulsion). Luckily for me it was my film scans that were lost, but I'm still in the process of rescanning the almost 400 rolls of film involved. This time my backups are better designed and properly associated with the negative archives.
-Adam On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
