Chase Shows How To Play It Safe (When It Comes To Protecting Data)

June 23, 2010
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Have you ever wondered what happens to those little raw files in big shoots? I mean, big scale productions gotta worry more than simply unloading the card, importing to light room and get a good night sleep.

Firstly it is a lot of date, and then it has to travel, get stored, archived, backed up and processed.

Chase Jarvis has a great video where he share his Protect-The-Data-Kong-Fu

I think that the question is how do you scale down (or up, if you are that guy) to your working model.

watch the video, and read the entire post (+ some really good comments) in Chase's blog post titled The Complete Workflow and Backup for Photo.

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Chase's backup failed. He just don't know it yet.

June 24, 2010
SAL-e

Everything is very good, except he is missing the most important step. Data recovery test. He is using Apple's TimeMachine which is known to have problems from time to time. You will not believe me, but I have seen it over and over again. People make multiple copies, but they never test them or test them only once when the system is setup. After that software gets updated and something breaks, or sys admin leaves and the new does not know the environment and makes a small mistake and etc, etc. As result people end-up with multiple useless backup copies of their data.

So If you ask me. Skip one of the backups and do restore instead. At minimum do it after any system config change or better on regular schedule like every 3 months.

So. TEST, TEST, TEST, and TEST one more time. Otherwise you have failed, you just don't know it yet.