Installing some kind of S.M.A.R.T. HDD monitoring tool ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.) could help detect HDD's ready to fail. That said I had several failed HDD's and SMART didn't help. In fact my oldest running HDD's have a red flag according to SMART. Backup is the only solution. I rely on Goodsync for replicating files across 2 or more HDD's, Amazon Photos and Onedrive to sync it to the cloud and backblaze to create another backup. Backblaze is great but it takes its time before a file is put in the backup queue. Amazon Photos was horrible and unreliable the last years, they apparently changed something and now it's working as expected. I check every now and then if files are really backuped to onedrive, amazon and backblaze by checking their webversions of the tools.
On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 08:40, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 07/09/2022 03:08 Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > (who might take up basket-weaving instead of photography…) > > Tell me about it. After losing four years' work during a backup > procedure, I have been "off" photography for quite a while. Interest is > slowly reviving but I'm seriously considering going back to film. > > My deepest sympathies. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
