I lost all my scanned images to a hard disk failure about three years ago, my backup plan was keeping the negatives. They're stored in a box somewhere. My digital backup strategy is more complicated...
-----Original Message----- >From: Charles Robinson <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 1, 2009 12:08 PM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: The best-laid plans... :-( > >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.
