As a photographer, one of the main things I worry about is the security of the data once I've captured it. With most photos, you can't take them again.
The past two weeks I have been shooting nightlife events (party, fashion show, party, festival, party...) for my university student's guild. I also work with the tech crew so it basically involved working from 11am till 3am most nights, and on festival day: 26 hours straight, maybe a power-nap here and there.
The reason I am telling you this: I was working, sleeping and shooting, my backup procedure almost flew out the window. And yesterday, bingo, my main drive did fly out the window - exactly 12 months to the day since I bought it. I almost flew through the roof when I realised what could be lost.
The one thing that wasn't doubly backed up: around 500 headline act photos from the festival; the futureheads; taio cruz; guru josh project live; nick grimshaw to name a few. The next scheduled backup would have been today. It seriously felt like someone had died when I realised.
However, I was lucky. With all media, when photos are deleted they are not lost until they have been overwritten with new photos - a good recovery software got me back the original files from my memory cards, minus only the edits I had made: minimal colour, brightness and contrast edits.
Putting all your data on one drive without a backup is like rock climbing without a safety rope, and having weekly backups only is like walking a tightrope between climbs. I was lucky to realise this before and make copies of my photos as I took them, and again as I downloaded them. Backup bytes are cheap as chips nowadays so it's easy to have everything backed up. Don't get caught short
Even just writing this post, the forum logged me out and I lost a bunch since the last time I copy-all'd to clipboard.
Imagine, how would you feel if you lost your data?
Have you ever suffered this?
Nick
PhotoNick.co.uk
The past two weeks I have been shooting nightlife events (party, fashion show, party, festival, party...) for my university student's guild. I also work with the tech crew so it basically involved working from 11am till 3am most nights, and on festival day: 26 hours straight, maybe a power-nap here and there.
The reason I am telling you this: I was working, sleeping and shooting, my backup procedure almost flew out the window. And yesterday, bingo, my main drive did fly out the window - exactly 12 months to the day since I bought it. I almost flew through the roof when I realised what could be lost.
The one thing that wasn't doubly backed up: around 500 headline act photos from the festival; the futureheads; taio cruz; guru josh project live; nick grimshaw to name a few. The next scheduled backup would have been today. It seriously felt like someone had died when I realised.
However, I was lucky. With all media, when photos are deleted they are not lost until they have been overwritten with new photos - a good recovery software got me back the original files from my memory cards, minus only the edits I had made: minimal colour, brightness and contrast edits.
Putting all your data on one drive without a backup is like rock climbing without a safety rope, and having weekly backups only is like walking a tightrope between climbs. I was lucky to realise this before and make copies of my photos as I took them, and again as I downloaded them. Backup bytes are cheap as chips nowadays so it's easy to have everything backed up. Don't get caught short
Even just writing this post, the forum logged me out and I lost a bunch since the last time I copy-all'd to clipboard.
Imagine, how would you feel if you lost your data?
Have you ever suffered this?
Nick
PhotoNick.co.uk
