On May 31, 2013, at 2:46 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: > 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.
Glad you had a backup, Rob. I haven't finalized my setup, yet. [Not having any photos, it's not especially urgent---except, of course, in relation to other kinds of files.] Another factor holding me up is that I've been planning to get a new MacBook, probably a MacBook Air, and I was surprised to find that the latter, and I believe the former, too, no longer have FireWire ports. Two of my three external drives are FireWire and would be unusable with the new computer. So I'm rethinking my options before going ahead with the purchase of the new computer. I'm leaning toward a USB 3.0 RAID drive and have identified a couple low-to-moderate cost machines, one pretty and one ugly. [Guess which one's cheaper.] This is more than a little off topic, but I would like very much to locate a wireless router with at least two USB ports, preferably USB 3.0. If anyone knows of one I'd be interested in hearing about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA [email protected] "With an ounce of willingness, everything can change." - Kim -- 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.
