Never trust your hard drive

[Theo]

Well as in the subject you can guess what happen to me. Yup hard drive and so goes a lot of my finished pic's i'll have to send my computer in to the shop as i'm not sure if it was the hard drive or the controller that bit the dust. I was lucky i did have all my raw images on disk so i will have them to start over for the most part on the pic i lost so you might be seeing a lot of repeats (with some changes) but i will just be glad to be back into the swing of things. I will be back when i'm back up and running......


back up, back up, back up   LOL (just had to say it for myself, maybe i'll learn)

Theo

[habakuk]

As frustrating as it might be, it isn't worthless. Thanks for the involuntarily reminder... 

Yes, it is a good thing to step back every now and then and think about how safe my picture collection is RIGHT NOW. This most often motivates me to plug in yet another external hard drive and spend some time backing up. Two copies isn't enough...

Hope you get back most of your work. I think it is a good moment to think twice which shots really are worth the recreation.

cheers
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[aprilS]

Oh, g*d, Theo; what a horror.

I was lucky i did have all my raw images on disk...

Ah; now there's a thought. Though I have redundant local and one online backup, I hadn't considered more simply saving all my RAW files to DVDs as well. Some processing can never be repeated, but then...we keep moving on and I'm not sure I'd want to.

I do feel for you!

[eob]

Sorry to hear about your mishap, Theo!

I strongly recommend using a redundant RAID setup at least for all your daily work. It doesn't cost much these days and it can make a real difference in case like yours. I use two of them: one for my daily work and the other for an archive of all my RAW files. That makes me feel much safer. When I add a DVD-backup to this setup, I can really sleep at night...