Photos I took earlier today, when I had daylight, are nowhere to be found. The SD card is empty, the “Unprocessed” folder on the computer is empty, and I know I haven’t worked on them. Mysterious and worrying.<\/p>\n
I’ll retake the photos tomorrow. No big deal. There was only a handful of them.<\/p>\n
But this incident serves as a reminder for me to appreciate the habit of emptying the SD card every few days, and the importance of a robust backup system. I don’t want to be one of those people whose phone dies or computer crashes or Google locks them out of their account, and they lose all their digital memories.<\/p>\n
I have three copies of my original RAW files: on a hard drive that sits on my desk, in the cloud, and on a separate hard drive stored elsewhere. That separate hard drive used to live in the tretton37 office, but now that I never go there, it’s moved to Eric’s workplace. It comes home once a month or so, gets that month’s photos, and then goes back to the office. If the house were to burn down together with the primary hard drive, and the external backup service somehow were to not deliver, then I’d still have this hard drive.<\/p>\n
In addition I have JPG exports of every photo on yet another separate hard drive. I have them to make it easy to browse photos together with the kids, but they do provide a kind of backup as well. And the blog is a fifth backup in a way. It doesn’t have all my photos but if all the other sources were lost somehow, the blog would still have thousands of my photos.<\/p>\n
I have the same three backups of the database for this blog – local, off-site, cloud. I have no idea how easy it would be to restore the blog starting from zero, so I hope I never need to use these backups, but it is good to have them.<\/p>\n
My photos and my blog are important to me, and I would be devastated to lose them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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