Back That Stuff UP!

If you are a seri­ous pho­tog­ra­pher, you are famil­iar with the task that is back­ing up your files. What­ever your sys­tem, whether it be RAID, or Drobo, or some­thing prim­i­tive and time con­sum­ing like what I do, you prob­a­bly rec­og­nize the impor­tance of back­ing up your files in case of dis­as­ter.… or do you?

This past week I have been recov­er­ing from a drive fail­ure that has been both annoy­ing and affirm­ing. Annoy­ing in that any time the drive with your oper­at­ing sys­tem tanks, it’s a huge time sink. Affirm­ing in remind­ing me of why I need be so dili­gent in back­ing up my files. In short, what could have been dis­as­ter has been greatly mit­i­gated by hav­ing mul­ti­ple back­ups of all crit­i­cal files. I could take it a step fur­ther by hav­ing some stuff off site, but I have been spend­ing my time re-installing appli­ca­tions and a new oper­at­ing sys­tem, rather than ruing the loss of crit­i­cal photos.

The photo at the top is of my nephew Jacob–isn’t he too freak­ing cute??? If he can’t con­vince you to backup your impor­tant files, well, I don’t know what will.