On 6/25/2019 7:14 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
Last night I learned that a backup regime has to protect not only
against accidents, theft and hardware failure, they also need to protect
against brain failure.
It seems that there were a couple of directories of photos on my laptop
that I only thought that I had copied onto my main system. Before my
last trip, to make space on my laptop I deleted all the files that
weren't of photos that I had posted to flickr. Last night, I went to
look for some photos from just before my trip to Texas, and couldn't
find them. It seems that I also neglected to make backups of one of the
directories.
Less than 150 files, ones that I didn't consider good enough to keep, is
a small price to pay to be reminded that my backup regime also needs to
protect against myself.
I discovered that some time ago when I went to look for a specific
picture and realized that somehow I had managed to delete my entire
image library of some 30k images from my Drobo.
I was able to restore almost everything from my old Drobo and internal
drives, but it did make me long for the good old days when the only way
to lose an image was to deliberately toss a strip of film in the garbage.
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