Cuba 90 - Scream!

[Beagletorque]

This reminds me of the Edvard Munch Scream Picture and is a bit how I'm feeling due to a "loss" of a hard drive this afternoon. No actual photos lost thank god, but quite a few "processed RAWs" which will need to be done again - insert your preferred expletive here and remember to backup frequently!

[Ricoh]

Re: Cuba 90 - Scream!

This reminds me that I'm skating on thin ice, I must heed this lesson.

[Graham_of_Rainham]

Re: Cuba 90 - Scream!

I too have just lost a 1TB drive. Maybe they have an expiry date of the end of June

[Ricoh]

Re: Cuba 90 - Scream!

Well RAID is the way to go, it's just the cost that's off-putting.

[Beagletorque]

Re: Cuba 90 - Scream!

Perhaps the hottest day of the year! My backups are raided, I just need to remember to actually backup slightly more often.

[raichea]

Re: Cuba 90 - Scream!

Well RAID is the way to go, it's just the cost that's off-putting.

RAID is a useful technique to protect against hard drive failure, and it can save a lot of time, if all goes smoothly, by saving you from having to restore data from a backup.

Unfortunately, most people never test that the RAID rebuild function works correctly after a failure. It is all driven by software and that software can have bugs - I have known rebuilds to fail.

RAID also does not protect against inadvertent or malicious deletion of files. I regularly tell my students to make sure they have a robust backup strategy in place... RAID cannot replace that.

I have my Windows systems running scheduled backups every day... in my case it's to a small network server, but a NAS box would do the same job. It's not difficult to do this using the Backup and Restore facility. Linux users can set up a cron job to achieve the same thing (but, if you're a Linux user, you knew that already ).

Steve