Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina, I use my Drobo to store everything I am working on but back up to single disks too. Drobo should be able to repair itself if 1 disc fails but I still back it up. cheers, Frank On 2 Aug, 2009, at 22:17, Tina Manley wrote: > At 05:04 PM 8/2/2009, you wrote: >> 2009-08-02-15:37:17 Brian Reid: >> > There are 2 problems here that are only slightly related. >> > >> > 1) Get your data off your damaged disk. >> > >> > 2) Restructure your computing world so that this never happens to >> you again. >> > >> > It's important not to confuse these two. [...] >> >> What he said. > Jeff - > > Yes, I'm working on retrieving the information off of the disk now. > If I don't, it's not a disaster because I had all but the last > week's work backed up on a WD hard drive with Acronis. I have to > wait to get the Drobo and my new 1T WD disks to be sure I can > restore what I've backed up with Acronis, but I've never had a > problem with that before so I'm hoping all goes well. I'll know on > Tuesday when the other disks get here. I don't intend to do > anything with the damaged disk except try to retrieve the last > week's work - it's scans of about 600 slides, which would mean a lot > of time scanning but nothing irreplaceable. Everything else is > either backed up or in RAW form on my travel hard drives. > > Now for restructuring my computing world to avoid future mistakes, > I'm going to depend on the new imagestore listserve ;-) If I can > keep up with the gurus!! > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information