Hard drive hideaway.
I’ve always been a firm believer of backing up my photography files… and then backing up my backups.
But I’ve never really realized just how important it can be.
While in Russia, I worked off of my primary travel hard drive in the main office and kept a secondary hard drive – updated as a back up weekly – hidden in a suitcase in my little room. Overkill, I thought, but what the hell. Might as well store the backup in a non-obvious location.
I’m damn glad I did.
Going through photo files once I was back in the States, I realized that certain files had been selectively deleted off my primary hard drive. After I finished a long, curse-filled rant, I took a deep breath and restored the files from my backup.
Funny, my main concern will photo file security had been with airport security. I never figured I’d have to watch my back in the situation that actually ended up being a problem.
Lesson learned – backup. Backup the backup.
And hide the backup.
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