laugh said:thats sad.
Lets learn from this: always back up your data.
lolx... sounds like some sales strategy.. however, it's true.Astin said:Also can try to subsribe to Clubsnap web hosting plan, then upload all the important photos on the web.....
Reflection said:Mind you...even cd-roms are not the "be-all-end-all" solution. Always print the best ones, use cold laminations and put them in an album. Something could still happen to them, but at least it won't be due to this sort of thing happening.
Unbelivable....vince123123 said:How do you guys backup all your data? I've coming to half a terabyte of photos to back up and still can't find a viable way to do it. Even with DVDs thats like going to take 100+ of it....
vince123123 said:How do you guys backup all your data? I've coming to half a terabyte of photos to back up and still can't find a viable way to do it. Even with DVDs thats like going to take 100+ of it....
ST1100 said:i have a similar problem. My current solution is one copy on DVD (half a terabyte - about 60 DVDs so far) and one copy on harddisk - offline.
i think HDDs are cheaper than DVDs for backup for the time and effort saved. i use a firewire external enclosure to plug in my exteral HDDs 'live'.
You can probably skip the DVDs and go straight for the HDDs, but i feel safer with one 'inert' copy sitting around somewhere.
vince123123 said:The only thing I'm worried about backing up to HD is that after a long while of not using it, would the heads refuse to work or the HD not function?
I've salvaged my old computers before and when I take out the HDD to store, after a long time, when I try to use them again, it refuse to read...
StreetShooter said:This happens. If I recall correctly, the magnetic charge on the disk slowly deteriorates over time, thus corrupting your data.
The solution was to "refresh" the data every now and then by rewriting it. Not sure what the best way to do this is, but I would imagine copying it from one hard disk to another should do the trick. Not sure whether a surface scan (using Scandisk) would work.