Comments on: Workflow Friday: Jason Anderson

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:56:24 +0000

It’s a trade-off, and a matter of scale and tolerance. While I understand your point, I think the article might not have been clear enough. The WD “Y” drive is actually two physical 500 GB drives – one is just hidden because I run a scripted back-up to it nightly. Nothing is partitioned. So, on that level, it sounds like our back-up strategies are actually more similar than divergent, although I do not keep 7 copies of each back-up, simply because my risk/tolerance level is lower – while I might be pretty upset if I lose data, truth be told, the world will not stop spinning if I lose everything. On that basis – will the world stop spinning if you do?

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:20:00 +0000

I would still rather have two separate physical drives rather than one partitioned drive as I have had drives fail and all partitions were affected.

I have two 1TB external drives for backup and one 1TB internal data drive. For one external drive, I use a backup program that saves to a different folder each night so that I always have 7 recent backups [it could be a few days before you realize a file such as Lightroom's catalog is corrupt]. The second external drive is a copy/mirror of my internal data drive with files updated nightly, but never deleted. In addition, all my non-photo data files are backed up each night to two different off site servers. Photos are backed up to a different off site server.

Too much time doing backup? I learned the hard way when I did not backup everything and my in-home expert formatted my data drive rather than the C drive last winter. All the backup is done while I am sleeping. My data are valuable and I cannot afford to loose a digital negative, book chapter, or article.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:15:57 +0000

Not exactly Gary – the Y drive is actually two 500 GB drives – remember? I split the partition, so that it’s actually two drives now with one scripted to back up to the latter nightly. I also have redundant backups of all my images going back at least the last 12 months on DVD, so even if both 500 GB drives fail, there’s the media backup to recover from.

Thanks for reading though – always nice to hear thoughts and feedback from others.

By: Kevin Mullins

Kevin Mullins — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:11:09 +0000

Great stuff Jason (both of you). Thanks for putting it together – definately a useful derivative from the standard photography topics, but as important as any of them

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:29:40 +0000

It would seem you are playing with trouble with your backup scheme. If the Y drive fails, you loose everything on the drive–your original files and your backup. Two separate 500 gb drives would be a safer approach, that is, don’t put all your files on one drive

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