When collecting a quantity of images one can store them on different media to preserve them against fysical loss. Ok so did I. But when it comes to a quantity of a few terrabytes most among us can loose the secure attitude to backup the images. Some have (like myself) only one big storage containing years of photographs.
And then, one day comes Murphy… Not one single picture left over from a crashed hard disk.
Lucky I have a brother in crime, he really is the great magicien Merlin from the Dark ages. He was capable to recover 100% of the lost images. It took him six days to restore them all on different hard disks and it took me an additional two weeks to rebuild the catalog.
On his advice I bought a portable 4 TB SSD and set up a synchronisation with an existing 4TB NAS drive. To economise space and time on the NAS drive I only synchronise the last year (in my case 2023). The earlier years are stored on two different hard disks.
I learned my lesson ! Take the time needed to backup your images. It’s no waste time at all! This horrible nightmare resulted in a reorganistation of my website. I hope you find your way out.
Enjoy and keep photographin’
Specially thanks to my brother!