On 1/31/2012 5:40 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
On 1/31/2012 6:33 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Walt Gilbert wrote:
I got some GREAT shots while I was out there! Unfortunately, they're all
on two dead hard drives -- both RAW and JPEGs! I guess my motherboard
sent voltage spikes to them through the USB as it was going down, and I
don't have the resources to try to recover them. Every shot I ever took
before this past July -- GONE.
Oh man, that's painful just to read!
Backup, folks: 3-2-1 method
3 copies of everything
2 different media
1 copy off-site
http://dpbestflow.org/backup/backup-overview
Thanks for the info, Mark.
That certainly sounds like a much better plan than I had before it
happened.
The biggest pain in the ass I face in remote storage is that I have a
pretty slow internet connection, so it takes forever to upload RAW
files. They're currently putting fiber optic lines in my area, though --
so maybe that'll be less of an issue before too long.
What I'd recommend is something like the kingwin ezdock
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=kingwin+ez-dock&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14881086521540749812&sa=X&ei=J5goT8nTEMHTiALcs6XXAQ&ved=0CFYQ8wIwAw
You can get cables that do about the same thing too. Just drop bare
SATA drives in it like old floppy disks. If you have a friend who has
critical back up data, just meet once a month and keep your offsite
backups at each other's houses.
-- Walt
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