I’m just seeing this. Yikes!!
… and you can’t recover them!
I’m just seeing this. Yikes!!
… and you can’t recover them!
This is why I backup and disconnect peripherals before updating. Twice Apple has issued updates that wiped attached external storage drives (I wasn’t a victim because I disconnect.)
2 years of photos and no backup?
Keep this in mind. Cloud storage can vanish on a moment’s notice. If your singular Cloud storage went away today for some reason, where is all your stuff?
I’ve always had that in the back of my head. I don’t trust “the cloud” much more than I trust anything these days lol
And here I thought I was a luddite because my daily backups and long-term archives are all done locally.
I am exactly the same. You only learn the true importance of back-ups after the worst has happened. Thankfully, for me, it happened early on and nothing too major was lost (I managed to retrieve most of it from a failed disc). It was enough to scare the bejesus out of me.
Now I am bordering on obsessive. Hourly/daily back-ups to time machine, then everything important; client projects (as soon as they are completed), photos, business admin, etc, etc, gets archived to a raid drive, so there’s always two mirrored copies and then just in case, that is all then tripled up in to another external usb drive.
Paranoid? Who, me?
At work, we have cloud, RAID in the office somewhere, and an offsite RAID as well.
You know what’s interesting about RAID drives? Yeah, sure you can swap out a failed drive with, theoretically, no loss (I’ve lost stuff) but if the CASE goes, we’ve found that you can’t just stack the drives into a new case. It has to be the exact same model case that they came out of. So we keep a spare. Use the drives if needed, and have the case, just in case.