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Re: [OM] The Joy of Backups

Subject: Re: [OM] The Joy of Backups
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:04:01 -0400
What a great discovery!  Worth losing stuff and having to hunt for it ;-)

Tina


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A few of you may be aware of a massive hard drive failure that I had
> in my mass storage device a couple years ago. Fortunately, I had most
> of the critical stuff backed up on CDRoms as well as on my laptop.
>
> Most.
>
> But I lost about three years of digital images because of an issue
> with the CDs themselves. The burner had issues and my own procedural
> reliability was an issue. Basically, I had gotten sloppy.
>
> Images that got published or printed were almost all kept because they
> were also in my working drives, but the archival storage got wiped
> out. So, there is a huge hole in my files from 2005 to 2008.
> Particularily bothersome was the loss of my October 2005 trip to the
> UP with Joel. Of the hundreds of photos taken, I only had three left.
>
> I also lost a couple thousand scans, but fortunately, I still have the
> RAW files of those. ;)
>
> So, yesterday, I was working on the darkroom getting it ready for
> production. As I was setting everything up I noted that I was missing
> my timer! Through three moves, the boxes for the darkroom gear got
> misdirected and about a third of the stuff was buried in the garage
> some place. So, I had to go diving into the stacks of "stuff" that I
> was rather afraid of. I think I could be cured of "hoarding" after
> yesterday's adventure.
>
> As I was digging, I found stuff that went missing due to the "stuff
> the closets because company is coming over" routines that we went
> through for a few years. This included all of the family pictures that
> hadn't made it into albums for a half-dozen years. When you're
> battling cancer, it's enough of a battle to survive much less try to
> keep a house neat.
>
> So, at some point, I encountered a stack of CDs that somehow wasn't
> included in the safe-deposit box backup. Unlabeled, of course. It
> turns out that these were the backups made during the trip itself! RAW
> files only. I think these backups were made in Joel's laptop.
> Fortunately, the reader in my desktop computer worked flawlessly and
> all those images are now in the computer.
>
> The timer? It was in the darkroom in a box that I had set next to the
> sink a couple hours earlier and had set the easels on top of.
>
>
>
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> Ken Norton
> ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.zone-10.com
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