I keep all of my photo files on a USB hard drive, and every-so-often I think "I really must get around to setting up some kind of backup." But it's a lot of data and I kept putting it off.
Yesterday the drive started making horrible clicking noises while performing a Time Machine backup. I stopped the backup and shut the drive down. It was working, but slowly, and I didn't want to push my luck. As poor timing would have it, a significant chunk of the world's hard drive manufacturing capacity is currently under water so prices have recently shot up. I was lucky to find a retailer who not only had stock at a reasonable price, they actually had a discount! So a brand new 2Tb drive is on my desk. Luckily I was able to lift all of my data off. I started with my "K10D" folder as that's the most important one (I still have a copy of my "Scanned Slides" folder on another old hdd). So now I'm back to thinking "perhaps I should set up some better backups." I might pop back down to the shop and get a second drive in the weekend... Cheers, Dave -- 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.
