[LRflex] Re: Close Call...
- From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 12:52:19 -0500
You could try putting it in the freezer for awhile. Sometimes that works.
Put it in a plastic bag first and let it get really cold.
Good luck!!
Tina
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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>
>
> --
> Bob Adler
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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