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October 21, 2009 | Comments (2)



On October 22, 2009 9:37 PM unclepill said:

Des,

Sorry to hear about that man. Huge downer. I had a similar experience with my Mac recently, which is my photography workstation. I have three external drives, all new, that had pretty much everything on them except for the cards from my last few trips. All three had recent backups. They're just single drive units. I also use my Godaddy space to back shit up on. For my little recording studio, I have two more. I'm a freak about backing up. I guess it gets in your blood after a while working in the IT industry.

Best of luck man. I know how much that can take the wind out of your sails. I have SpinRite if you need it. It's supposed to be pretty good. We got all sorts of shit at work, so hit me up if you need something specific. We might have it.

unclepill

On October 22, 2009 11:51 PM joypog said:

dude I'm so sorry to hear about that!!! That's awful, but keep on trucking! I found your blog about a year ago and I read it on google reader, but yeah, for all the ones I've subscribed over the year, you're still my favorite photo blogs. btw good luck finding a better a better backup system, and if you settle on a good one I'd love to hear about it....

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I am just god damn disgusted right now.


I spent quite a bit of time and energy building a RAID 5 array for my photography. I figured that this would be a good, reliable, way to store my stuff (I have other backups as well). I lost the parity on the portion of the array I use for stuff that's not too critical...works in progress, archived jpegs that I uploaded here, etc. This has happened before and it hasn't been a big deal other than 20+ hours of disk crunching to restore redundancy. Well...this time not so much. My entire "Processed Images" folder, which holds works in progress, was just empty when I came home today. No indication of why, no ability to undelete. So I have now lost months and months of group shots, as well as days worth of work on shots from my most recent Detroit trip.


Unreal. I didn't lose anything that can't be recreated (I have my Finished Images and RAW files on another portion of the array as well as multiple backups)...but I definitely lost a LOT of hard work.


In any case, I am just too disgusted to work on the stuff from the paper mill I was posting before this, so I am moving on to my PREVIOUS Detroit trip from last March. I misunderstood some settings on my new camera on this trip, but I think I still got some good shots. Enjoy.