Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, Now that I shoot digital and hence have no film to fall back on, I have become quite religious about backups--all my images (at least all the ones I want to keep) are stored on external hard drives that are only used for this purpose so that they are off most of the time, AND on DVDs. For each image, I keep both the original RAW file and the edited TIFF. Nathan Richard wrote: > Unfortunately, that's a fact :-( It is an external drive. Most of the > photos are scanned slides so I still have the original. Some of them are > the files from the Epson R-D1 so if I can't rescue the data, there they > go... > > Yes, I was planning to make backups.... > > At 02:00 PM 5/24/2005, Jim Nichols wrote: > >> Richard, >> I can't tell from your photo whether your premise was a fact or a >> prediction. About a year ago, I bought an external hard drive, with >> its own "brick" power supply, to use for a backup drive as well as a >> place to store my digital images. Many of my images are also on CD, >> so I really have a backup for the backup. >> >> When a rogue program seriously corrupted my C-drive, and I had to >> reformat it and reinstall my operating system and software, the photo >> files were untouched. As inexpensive as external drives have become, >> I don't see how I can afford "not" to use one. > > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com