I recently had a hard drive crash and lost a lot of my feet clips. Given my mistake and during the painstaking process of rebuilding my collection, how do you all back up your data? Does anyone use a cloud service?
Posted by NorcalfeetStudios (Member # 732) on :
2 or 3 external hard drives besides the main one..plus cloud (BHE Server). Been there, Done that..not very fun especially when you have more than 7 years of archives.
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
Right now I do external hard drives too. I used to do CD/DVD for years. Then I had a number of DVDs burned, but the computer was unable to read the data on them. Most of the sets I still had on my hard drive at the time, but the half dozen to dozen sets that were unreadable really scared me. So now I no longer mess around with burning disks because of the corruption I encountered.
Patrick
Posted by Talos (Member # 39913) on :
Got a 1 terabyte external HHD. I use it for everything, important documents/pictures, downloaded movies, my 'stash.' Besides just to back up my stuff I also got it in case my computer got stolen or something.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
External HDDs and also a NAS.
Posted by dicksonjoe (Member # 6527) on :
Except in my case where I lost a number of sets, including the one of Aspen that is the Wu's Feet Links feature set from 2013. Those are the last DVDs/CDs I'll burn as the files and data are all sitting there on the disk, but you can't copy them, or rescue them. Just get error messages whenever I try. Corrupted and probably lost forever.
Patrick
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Optical media are good as an adjunct to other storage methods. I've been hosed by corrupted DVDs also. Redundant HDDs are the way to go. But heck, maybe you should get a magnetic tape drive, ha ha.
In all seriousness Patrick, there is data rescue software out there that could recover what's on your optical media. I've used some before with some success, but it was years ago and I can't remember the vendor. PCmag.com does reliable reviews of stuff, maybe check out what they like.
Posted by ucflyeah (Member # 32674) on :
I have videos of almost all my foot sniffing encounters dating back to 2008. I have an external hard drive that gets backed up every hour from my Mac. I would, however, like a third backup of some sort. These files are too big to email to myself (around 500MB to 850MB I think?), they're also too big to fit on a disk. I'm pretty cheap and don't want to pay for online storage if I don't have to but that's looking like the only sure-fire way to save these precious videos. Unless there's a free option but I've searched for that to no avail.
Posted by KDCX859 (Member # 25431) on :
External HDD for me. I agree with pat - optical media is only good a few years unless they're professionally / commercially done.
Posted by Rocky TSM (Member # 28971) on :
I'm making the switch to newer external hard drives. I tried the CD/DVD route twice before. Lost everything I had after a few years both times. I thinking about using cloud, but I have roughly a TB of data.
Posted by dolo. (Member # 37306) on :
Guys in general like to collect stuff and this includes clips/pics. I have a couple of external hard drives. If someone ever broke into my house the only possessions I would be worried about would be my hard drives.
Posted by NorcalfeetStudios (Member # 732) on :
quote:Originally posted by Patrick:
quote:Originally posted by dicksonjoe: OldSkool Dvds is the safest way to go.
Except in my case where I lost a number of sets, including the one of Aspen that is the Wu's Feet Links feature set from 2013. Those are the last DVDs/CDs I'll burn as the files and data are all sitting there on the disk, but you can't copy them, or rescue them. Just get error messages whenever I try. Corrupted and probably lost forever.
Patrick
Just contact the Russian pirates who downloaded all of our archives and distributed them to the pirate sites and all those flop & choppers on social media. I'm sure between both of them you could recreate that whole lost set Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
I remember a last year same thing happened to me, used "Puran data recovery" software (which is free )and got 90% of my files back. Takes time, took about 8-10hours to recover a 1TB hard drive but it's worth the wait.
I don't use a cloud service, just an external 300GB now as a backup is good enough for me Posted by footntoesmassager (Member # 12132) on :
Thanks for all the tips everyone.
I had a 1 TB Western Digital external hard drive that all my clips were saved on. It crashed last week when the SATA interface board was damaged. After buying a SATA dock the drive was somehow unreadable, even with the data recovery software.
While I can get most of the free collections back, the biggest problem I had were the custom clips I requested. Cammile (from Wet & Messy Me), Chloe Creations, and Mandy Flores were very helpful in helping me get some of my clips back. One other sent me to her clips store to basically buy them over, which is ok, but I was a little disappointed. I understand though, they're busy people who run a small business and I'm keeping them from doing their daily jobs.
FYI, Clips4sale has a 15 day archive of your purchases that you can restore if necessary.
Otherwise, I've got another 1 TB drive on order.
Posted by Talos (Member # 39913) on :
Does anyone know of ways to prevent a hard drive crash? Or is it something that will inevitably and unexpectedly happen?
Posted by NorcalfeetStudios (Member # 732) on :
quote:Originally posted by Talos: Does anyone know of ways to prevent a hard drive crash? Or is it something that will inevitably and unexpectedly happen?
Most modern day desktops anyway are rated around 5-6 years of moderate to heavy service, and it can be sudden. It might give you a couple days of really laggy performance if you're lucky.
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
quote:Originally posted by NorcalfeetStudios: Just contact the Russian pirates who downloaded all of our archives and distributed them to the pirate sites and all those flop & choppers on social media. I'm sure between both of them you could recreate that whole lost set
I wish! These are the Canon Raw (.CR2) files I'm talking about. I have all the downsized and stamped versions of the photos. It's the high resolution, right off the camera files I lost.
Patrick
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: In all seriousness Patrick, there is data rescue software out there that could recover what's on your optical media. I've used some before with some success, but it was years ago and I can't remember the vendor. PCmag.com does reliable reviews of stuff, maybe check out what they like.
Years ago when Carmen returned to Soles of Silk I had an XD card for my old Fuji FinePix camera fail to show any data on the drive. It showed there was storage occupied on the drive, however. Someone on this forum suggested a program that rescued all the data for me. I rewarded him with 6 months of membership time.
Knowing this, I've tried using several programs that do similar things for these DVDs. So far, several programs on both a PC and Mac have managed only to get me several photos if I'm lucky.
What happens is I go to rescue the photos and it'll grab the first couple. When it hits one it can't read, I can leave the rescue go for two days and it doesn't budge. Sometimes it'll even lock up the PC.
Do you know of any good programs or places where I can get this rescued? Hell, I've even thought about just sucking up my pride and letting a professional take a crack at it. Hopefully he has a foot fetish so I can give him some membership time too. LOL
Patrick
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I'm afraid I can't name something right off the bat. However a quick search nets the following info:
If you're just replacing the failed drive with another of the same type, you're essentially right back in the same situation, just a matter of time before it eventually dies again, unless you have more than one copy of your data.
For the money spent, higher quality internal hard drives can be had, than paying for external enclosures that often come with cheap low quality drives inside.
I like the Western Digital Black series drives for example that come with a 5 year warranty.
But if you're going for an inexpensive external drive, get one with two disks mirrored Raid 1, so that if one disk dies, you still have a backup copy on the other.
Originally posted by Patrick:
quote:These are the Canon Raw (.CR2) files I'm talking about. I have all the downsized and stamped versions of the photos. It's the high resolution, right off the camera files I lost.
At least you tried to save them. A lot of photographers throw away (.jpg) their digital negatives straight out of the camera.
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