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Maybe it was a manufacturing defect, maybe something hit both drives and warped the plates, maybe the drives fell and hit the ground. What happened, you may ask? I honestly have no idea. The folders start to take a while to open, weird noises from the reading head. Well, that’s what we have a backup for! Plug in the backup drive, open it. At one point it just occured that the drive was dead. Photos were taking too long to load, something was happening. After going back home I had imported everything to my catalog and decided to export and make copies of the collection to sent my friends. In October 2013 I took a month long road trip with some friends throught the US Pacific West, from the Monument Valley all the way to the Pacific Coast Highway.

Monthly backups of the photo collection to the secondary external USB drive.

When photos were imported to the Lightroom catalog, a secondary copy was performed to my main drive - deleted after a couple of months.

Photo collection stored on one external USB drive.

Lightroom library stored on my main drive with weekly backups, also stored on that drive.

I decided to start fresh and bought two 1TB My Passport drives from Western Digital - one to be my main drive and the other a full backup to protect me in case of any failures.

After I got back to Brazil I started looking into more robust Lightroom workflows for my photos and the idea of backups popped into my head. From then onwards I got external USB drives that would serve me as photo libraries, and everytime it got close to full I expanded to a new external drive with my entire collection.īackups never crossed my mind and I had been lucky to never have had a drive failure before. My library and photos were still kept on the same drive, until it became too small to remain my photo storage. I accumulated photos from my teen ages and on, going through my period in France and back to Brazil, including many many trips.Įventually I got my first DSLR and started using Lightroom as part of my workflow. Early daysĪs I have mentioned in previous posts, I started taking photos more seriously around 2006 when I got a Sony DSC-R1, but had been using digital cameras since 2003 with my beloved Kodak CX6330.įor a long time I kept my photos on my main hard drive and copied them from PC to PC whenever I got I new one, and then to Macs once I migrated over.

In 2013 I lost 34,766 photos spanning 10 years of my life and took measures to prevent it from ever happening again. When it comes to storage, one is none, two is one and three is the minimum you should have.

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The Importance of Backups - How-to: Synology and Wasabi How I lost 34,766 photos and never plan on losing data again