[LRflex] Re: Close Call...
- From: Robert Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 09:45:00 -0800
You could of course be paranoid like me:
One HDD for each year's photos kept off site
At home, for each year's photo's with an offsite HDD, an 8TB mirrored RAID.
For the current 2 years of photos, an internal 2TB mirrored RAID and an
External mirrored 2TB raid. For the external 2TB raid, the disks are
swappable, so I have 3 disks. Each month end I take out one disk from the
home RAID and replace it with a disk kept offsite. So dual data redundancy
for the last 2 years of photos.
Worst case, I loose 1 months worth of data unless both buildings crumble (a
possibility for certain around here!) or data is corrupted.
I sleep better knowing this :-)
Best,
Bob
PS - That doesn't include the process for my other data and O/S backups!
Glad you recovered from a very close call, David!
Best,
Bob
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:16 PM, David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fellow Flexers...
>
> For years, I backed my images up on DVDs. It worked well, but was slow to
> do
> (especially as I made 3 copies of each) and the longer I went, the more
> need
> there was to re-copy the early DVDs, yet again.
>
> So, I switched to two "hard drive docks". A friend had used them with
> great
> success... so I bought two. Lots of storage and much faster to find your
> images!
>
> If your not familiar with them, here's a small photo of one...
>
> http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/HD_Dock.html
>
> Anyway, I keep my images on two drives, so that if one packs it in the
> images
> are on another.
>
> Today I went looking for a shot, and plugged a drive in ... in fact, the
> drive
> that is in the photo. The drive whirred & clicked, but no response.
>
> When you remove a drive from the dock, and carefully put it down, there is
> some
> resistance, at first, due to the gyroscopic effect of the spinning discs.
> When
> I listened, I could not hear the motor, and when I took it out, there was
> no
> resistance. The motor had died!
>
> No problem ... I have another! :-) But when I put that one in... same
> problem.
> :-( (For what it's worth, both Western Digital "Caviar Green" drives.)
>
> I checked the docks ... but they run all the other drives (I have many)
> just
> fine. After a half dozen tries (desperation will make you do strange
> things!),
> one of the drives actually fired up, so I fear that something inside the
> drive
> is intermittent.
>
> Needless to say, without touching that drive again, I've copied all the
> images
> on to a new (Not WD) drive, and overnight, tonight, I will copy that drive
> to
> another brand new drive. When I hit town, tomorrow, I will buy yet a
> third,
> and copy all to it, as well!
>
> Thus, endeth the lesson, for today.
>
> David.
>
>
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