Feiten. Anders bekeken.

Where are your files? 

Geschreven door  op in Opinie, The Mobile Life.

Where are your files? What if your hard drive fails?

2016-05-20 13.58.46-1.jpg

Backups … It’s one of the most un-sexy topics out there. No one wants to be distracted by actually managing files, let alone think about a backup solution.

What would happen if your hard drive failed? Would you lose anything? What if your apartment burned down? Or the entire city got wiped by an asteroid? Would you lose your files?

Most of you probably would. I wouldn’t. Sure, I’d lose some files, but not what is most important to me: my photos.

“But Kris”, I already hear you thinking, “you’re a professional, I don’t need all that”. Don’t you? That amazing holiday you took, the first birthday of your child, or even memories of people no longer among us. Let alone memories, what about other important things like contracts, financial information and more.

Your Hard Drive Will Fail.

Everything on it will be lost, unless you have more than one back up.

My girlfriend used to put everything on an external hard drive, and a cloned version on a separate drive. Until the moment came both failed at the same exact time. Talk about bad cosmic luck, eh!

So, what is my backup strategy? First of all, this is a strategy that has grown over time, from several separate drives, to bigger, faster and overall better systems.

2016-05-20 13.56.31-2.jpg

I have all of my work on a PROMISE Pegasus 2 R6 18TB drive. First of all, the 6 drives in the huge RAID array are set in RAID 5, enabling me to lose 2 drives before I even start to lose files. And it has already happened to me! A HDD failed on me. All I had do to was to switch drives and start a utility. Tadaa!

Everything gets copied to my Mac Mini server with Time Machine to a 12 TB LaCie 4BIG, also set to RAID 5. That is the drive that will be upgraded next, since my content that needs to be back upped is slowly growing towards that level.

Next up: Off-Site copy! Thanks to CrashPlan Pro, I’m doing an offsite copy of all my RAW photos, Lightroom libraries, graphic projects and rendered video files to an 8TB hard drive. The biggest commercial available at that time.

Of course, we still have everything in the cloud! With files backed up in the cloud with things like Google Photos, Google Drive and Dropbox, it’s hard to imagine to loose absolutely everything in a disaster. Music, movies and TV shows are also no longer backed up offsite, since in the event of a hard drive failure, I can restore everything from the iTunes Store and Apple Music.

So, this is my strategy. What is yours?

(And please don’t tell me your strategy in case of lost files is to make an angry Facebook post and break down crying)

Ook interessant

iTunes Match

15/03/2013

15/03/2013

<p>​iTunes Match. Not just another locker service. Or is it? </p>

Doctor Strange (2016)

23/10/2016

23/10/2016

Marvel comic books have a very rich and diverse history of superheroes. A whole lot of mysticism appears, like Power...

Electronic Bag Tag

08/07/2013

08/07/2013

<p>Designworks, a Brittish product design firm has partnered with British Airways to create an awesome re-usable e-ink based bag tag. </p>

The State of Mobile Vikings

24/09/2015

24/09/2015

The funnest community in Belgium, that would be an accurate description for the VMNO Mobile Vikings. Since 2008 the project,...

Qustomer en CityLife samen sterk als Joyn

06/10/2016

06/10/2016

Je kent het wel, dat stapeltje klantenkaarten in je portefeuille … Voor de vakantie flikker je die er even uit...

Wearing the future

10/09/2014

10/09/2014

<p>Apple Watch. Need to say more? The curtain has been pulled back on one of the most anticipated products coming from Cupertino.</p>

Review: Sonos Beam

20/02/2019

20/02/2019

Het is moeilijk om objectief te zijn bij een product in een ecosysteem dat je dagelijks gebruikt. Net zoals Apple...

Review: Photoshop for iPad

02/01/2020

02/01/2020

Het was even wachten. In Oktober 2018 toonde Adobe de iPad app waar iedereen op aan het wachten was: een...

LEGO WALL•E (21303)

29/09/2015

29/09/2015

It’s not every day you can call a LEGO set adorable, but then again, it’s not every day they release...

SONOS PLAYBAR

04/08/2016

04/08/2016

One of the first things I like to do when having a new speaker, is blast out the THX theme....

hue: personal wireless lighting

06/06/2015

06/06/2015 2

Starting from a clean slate with my move to my own apartment gave me the opportunity to buy in a...

Bose SoundLink On-Ear

23/09/2015

23/09/2015 2

Headphones are one of my most important things in my EDC (Every Day Carry). I can leave home without my...

Cogito Connected Smart Watch

13/07/2014

13/07/2014

<p>The two new Cogito smart watches try to simplify your notifications. Too bad they only complicate it. </p>

Stap 1: creëer een fietscultuur

22/10/2019

22/10/2019

Vanavond komen de gemeenteraadsleden van Hasselt weer samen voor hun maandelijkse zitting. Heel grote dossiers komen er niet aan bod,...

Apple’s Magic Accessories

16/10/2015

16/10/2015 2

Apple has no issue claiming their products aren’t just special, they can be classified as magical and unbelievable simple. We’ve...

Reageer
Geef een antwoord

Het e-mailadres wordt niet gepubliceerd.

Deze site gebruikt Akismet om spam te verminderen. Bekijk hoe je reactie-gegevens worden verwerkt.