I’m pretty obsessive about my data. I have the negativess from my first wedding in 1998 still in storage. The idea of losing a single image scares the pants off of me.
Because of these things I have been a religious person for back ups in multiple places and media. The size of my archive is getting insane though. I am having to make a big change in how I handle things.
I have two of these
Because of these things I have been a religious person for back ups in multiple places and media. The size of my archive is getting insane though. I am having to make a big change in how I handle things.
I have two of these
Fantom G-Force MegaDisk
s on the way. Very cool desktop RAID solution. Each is 1 Terabyte configured in a redundant RAID 1 so each one has a duplicate of itself internally on a second disk.
The first will hold old archived projects and the second will keep up with my present workflow.
The first will hold old archived projects and the second will keep up with my present workflow.
Along with these I will continue to do my regular DVD backups as well. Doing all this makes certain I am in good shape for the long run.
Because I’m uptight, I’m working on a 4th location for stored data. (yes, forth, the third is my online server for the lab) Soon I will be expanding my online server space to incorporate a full backup of all my files on a secure server in another part of the country.
Yes, I probably need therapy, but I don’t ever want to tell a client or myself I can’t print something because the file is gone.
(This year I started giving my wedding clients DVDs of the finished images this year as another level of protection.)
