{"id":108,"date":"2011-01-26T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-01-26T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:32:25","slug":"backing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/backing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on a recent post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/photo-613\/members\/9017253\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">someone<\/a> mentioned backing up files. He is right, backing up your files, whether photos or other documents is a good safety measure. I have had an occasional hard drive fail, and I have had a couple of laptops stolen. Luckily in both cases I was able to recover almost everything from backups. The traditional backup strategy is often described as a 3-2-1. Three copies of every file, Two different media types, and one kept off site. This is very good advice made by people much smarter than me. However I am lazy and opinionated, so I have my own method&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 I do actually have at least two copies of all files. As described<a href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/2011\/01\/opensource-and-free-photo-processing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>, I have various workflow copies of each image. I also copy my whole pictures directory chain to my NAS with RAID*. I also copy my directory to an external hard drive. Where I differ is in my opinion of CD\/DVD\/Blueray backups. I really don&#8217;t think they are worth it. Optical media are too fragile, too small in capacity, too hard to store, too hard to catalogue, too expensive per gigabyte&#8230;.. In other words, I see no advantage over a USB drive. *There are a number of retail Network Access Servers available, but I made my own with an old discarded computer and a bunch of drives by installing Ubuntu Server. Follow the links to learn more&#8230;. lots more&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on a recent post someone mentioned backing up files. He is right, backing up your files, whether photos or other documents is a good safety measure. I have had an occasional hard drive fail, and I have had a couple of laptops stolen. Luckily in both cases I was able to recover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}