On May 28, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > I now know what happened: I had forgotten that I had a new hard drive put in > at the end of December!
And now I know even better. I have been really, really stupid. This is the story: Prior to getting the new drive I had been excluding my photo database from Time Machine backups and was backing them up instea in a daily sequential backup to two disks I had set up in Carbon Copy Cloner. When the new disk was installed I decided to include the photo database in the Time Machine backup. I did so---I thought---by checking the topmost checkbox in my user directory to select all the folders in it. I then deleted the two backups on the other two drives. Didn't need to. I had lots of unused space on all my drives. I just did. I'm kind of a nut about not hanging onto stuff I don't use. Problem was, since the photo database had been excluded from the Time Machine backups, it did not exist on the Time Machine backup from which I restored my data after the new disk was installed. At that point my photos did not officially exist anymore. Could've recovered them in a variety of ways at that point if I'd been aware of what I'd done, but I wasn't, and now it's over. Lessons learned, at least as of the moment: [1] Again, pay attention to your photo database. Visit it often. Don't assume that it's safe. Make sure it's safe. [2] Go in for all the redundancy you can take advantage of. E.g., Carbon Copy Cloner has an option that archives all modifications and deletions until there is less that fifteen Gb on the drive. I chose instead the option that deletes everything from the target that's not in the source. If I'd chosen the first option, given how much free space I had on my drives, I would've been able to recover my photo database from the CCC archive. Those are two big ones. I pretty sure there will be more in the near future. Bruce and Steve, I'll be getting back to you regarding your last responses to me ASAP. Thanks to all who responded. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir "You will be needed in the movement when you realize that you are not needed in the movement." - Chris Crass -- 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.
