I try to keep the back-up hard drives in an old shoe box for continuity... On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Peter Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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