On 30 May 2013 10:27, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That's a hard lesson too, sorry about your loss but glad that you solved the mystery. It's so very easy to stuff up, regular back-ups are so damn important. I destroyed my image database the other day by inadvertently installing an app whilst doing a database compress which broke the pipe to the server corrupting the whole database. The database contains 260k thumbnails of on and off-line drives, fortunately I had only backed it up a week back but it still took a few hours to rebuild the thumbnails as I had shot several thousand images and needed to re-index a stack of off-line media. I won't do that again in a hurry. Best of luck with your new improved back-up regime. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
