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    Lost photos on my PC

    So I've been shooting at least in some form since 1999 and lost photos for the first time ever. My wife went to look for some photos she recently shot and they just weren't there. I also noticed I was missing the photos I took around the same time period hers where shot. I didn't have a hardware failure or anything like that, they just weren't there. I do offsite backups but haven't done any since shooting them so they are apparently gone for good. Fortunately they weren't anything important but the concept is SCARY. They are apparently just GONE for no reason.

    I'm buying a 320gb drive for one of my other home machines so I can do daily automated backups to that between my offsite backups. Hmmm... come to think of it if I bought another external enclosure I could do my daily backups to that and then swap that with my offsite drive every week.... I guess I have better disaster recovery planning to do.

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    Re: Lost photos on my PC

    Have you run a file search? It's awfully easy to accidentally move a folder into another folder. Over the years I've done a lot of filefinding for the computer semi-literate at work as well as on my own drives occasionally.
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    Re: Lost photos on my PC

    Yup, that was the first thing I thought of. It seems very odd that both of us lost images from the same time period considering we have separate folders. Also, the images are stored on a hardware mirror so it's not as if a drive just hiccuped either.

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    Re: Lost photos on my PC

    Quote Originally Posted by Arctirus
    So I've been shooting at least in some form since 1999 and lost photos for the first time ever. My wife went to look for some photos she recently shot and they just weren't there. I also noticed I was missing the photos I took around the same time period hers where shot. I didn't have a hardware failure or anything like that, they just weren't there. I do offsite backups but haven't done any since shooting them so they are apparently gone for good. Fortunately they weren't anything important but the concept is SCARY. They are apparently just GONE for no reason.

    I'm buying a 320gb drive for one of my other home machines so I can do daily automated backups to that between my offsite backups. Hmmm... come to think of it if I bought another external enclosure I could do my daily backups to that and then swap that with my offsite drive every week.... I guess I have better disaster recovery planning to do.
    This is why I keep a copy of all my images on a slave drive on my computer.
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    Re: Lost photos on my PC

    Quote Originally Posted by almo
    This is why I keep a copy of all my images on a slave drive on my computer.
    I'm doing an external HD and also copies on CD. When my internal HD failed last winter, somehow a bunch of images got wiped off the external too. Don't know how it happened, but the fact is that it can happen. Sounds like you know what you're doing but it's scary!

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    Re: Lost photos on my PC

    My external harddrive is kept at work in case my house were to burn down or something so I really only bring it home after I have something significant to back up. I have a dvd archive as well but I only update that every six months.

    I think for my new disaster recovery plan I'll keep a removable drive at home which receives nightly backups then swap that with one kept offsite once a week.

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