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I'm nowhere near as diligent as I should be when it comes to backing up my digital photo files.
I'm not all that trusting of technology, but it seems to me I've had pretty good luck over the years.
About a year ago my main external drive started acting wonky. Folders taking forever to open. The files appearing even slower.
Right away I started copying over to a similar drive that hadn't seen as much use.
The entire ordeal was quite slow and painful.
The good thing is, I rescued everything before the other drive died.
So now I'm creating a recovery system that's easy enough for me to maintain from here on out.
I save everything. Card dumps as far back as 2005. Every photo I've processed and posted to all the various blogs and social media platforms over the years. Flickr included.
That's a lot ot stuff!
How conscientious are you about back-ups? Do you copy files manually? Are your back-ups automated? How often do you tackle them?
This was taken as a backup option in case my second batch of truffles didn't turn out :) They did so this wasn't used for the second bootcamp.
Strobist: Taken in a light tent with an sb600 outside shooting through the diffusion wall (camera left) and an SB26 doing the same on the right.
The background is a spotty tea-towel which I thought would work well for the colours :)
If you thought that the light grey hull was sort of boring, and that I was just building your standard octagonal ship with big slabs like everyone else then think again. The front hinges off. A month or so ago I showed this thing in a vertical stance as a "space elevator". I liked the idea but still wanted this to be a space ship of sorts. Well I compromised and thought of hinged aircraft such as the Antonov, and transferred the idea here. I figured that if you discover a new planet your first goal is creating a supply chain between you, the exploring vessel, and other ships behind you.
This whole thing will get bigger as is traditional, but I'm really taking my time. Since I've finished the biggest obstacle (the Nautilus), I can proceed further with my sci-fi grand plan. Really the goal is to continue building sci-fi shit like this and other ships until I graduate. I'll then see if I can continue building during Masters study and finish the whole project for a future brick con or other lego convention.
The scene I've had in my head for the past couple years is the Nautilus coming in as backup to an exploration vessel(s) which look somewhat abandoned on a desolate new world. I guess kind of Alien inspired with a mix of Halo.
The biggest struggle is going to be building the whole environment. It is going to have to be at least 1 x 2 meters squared area for the world to look big in comparison to the other ships, and definitively have curvature of the planet built into it. Issue there is that would take a ludicrous amount of parts and $ compared to all my other stuff. My lego collection is actually tiny compared most AFOL's, and all my ship builds including the Nautilus have been on a tight budget.
hard drive crashed on my laptop 2 weeks ago, I was able to recover all data including photos :o), but it was pretty stressful. could you please share how do you backup your photos?
This build is part of the story "Backup arrives" for Andromeda's GATEs on Eurobricks.
You can read the whole story here: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=120279
Vor ca. 2 Jahren habe ich mir ein NAS zugelegt, um meine Datensicherung auch "extern", außerhalb meines Rechners, zu haben.
Und was soll ich sagen? Ich bin noch immer begeistert!
Der PC kopiert bei jedem Systemstart die neuen Datein auf das NAS und das NAS kopiert alle Daten in "die Cloud".
So habe ich stets ein Backup meiner Daten, kann mobil darauf zugreifen und das alles, ohne auch nur einen Finger zu rühren :)
a word of warning. backup your files! i lost the last 5 plus months of my photoblog due to drive failure and my failure to create a backup of the site. Luckily I did not lose any of the images. HOWEVER, any drive can go at any time so heed my warning all you digital shooters.
DC, Washington DC, 9:30 Club.
One of the backup singers at an Erasure concert at the 9:30 Club in DC - not sure if this is Val or Emma.