It is kind of hard to backup these days when hard drives are so big and affordable back up media so small. Redundant copies on off line drives seems to be the only workable solution, but it is still on hard drives which are not what I would call archival media.
I feel for you, Dave. But then years ago I had my negatives and photos stored at my parents house when it burned down. Sometimes nothing you do works. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- David Savage wrote: > Well shit. > > I mentioned the other day that I had a hard drive problem. I turns out > the head had died. I took the hard drives (RAID 0 configured system) > to a data recovery company in the hope that my files could be > retrieved. I just got a heart breaking call. All the platters were > scratched & there is no chance of recovering the data. FUCK, FUCK, > FUCK!!!!! > > I had grown lax in my backing up so I've basically lost all my photos > taken with the K10D from before my OS trip. > > A lot of the shots aren't a big loss. While disappointing, I can live > without a glut of flower & cat photos, but there are some (such as > those of the comet McNaught, and a few family gatherings) that I'll > never get a chance to re-shoot. > > Let this be a warning to all those who don't regularly back up because > they don't think it will happen to them. It might, so don't be > lazy/cheap. > > I just want to go to bed now. > > FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!!!!! > > Dave > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
