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
Diversification is important! Even cloud storage can go underwater: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/MegaUpload-User-Data-Destroyed-Deleted-Access-Backup,14588.html or http://goo.gl/tFe7A . Igor -- 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.
