My backup system is documented on http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ Click on "#06 - Backup System Notes".
G On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > G'day all > > I just spent several "enjoyable" hours recovering from a near disaster, > photographically speaking. > > My backup plan for the past few years has been to store all my photos on > two external hard drives - No.1 is permanently attached to the computer > and No.2 is kept off site (sort of - since I retired, a true off site > solution is no longer practical). I back up to No.1 almost daily and to > No.2 every couple of weeks. > > Anyway, drive No.1 has been flaky for a few months now but is still > working. I haven't been too concerned because No.2 is up to date and I > thought I'd get around to replacing No.1 when it finally carked. > Unfortunately, when I connected No.2 last night - nothing. Not even a > 'device not recognised" message and no disk spinning sounds for the > drive case. > > So there I was with all of my past 6 years of photo files on two drives, > one of which could turn up its toes at any minute and another which had > suddenly become inaccessible. Fortunately it didn't, so all of my image > files are now 'safely' on a new external drive. The only downside is > that I've got another few fun filled hours doing the same thing to a > second new drive. > > Digital photography - bah!! > > However, this got me wondering what methods others use to backup their > files...... > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > > > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
