http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/lost-photos-5-gut-wrenching-stories/ Daily discussion of photography business issues & photography websites. Marketing and sales tips for smart photographers, plus a dose of inspiration from the PhotoShelter team. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/lost-photos-5-gut-wrenching-stories/#comment-18932 Chris Owyoung Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:23:00 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/lost-photos-5-gut-wrenching-stories/#comment-18932 I had an external drive that died taking about 350GB of photos with it - RAW, JPEG, retouched PSDs, everything. The head crashed into the platters so nothing was recoverable. That's right about the time I bought a Drobo and decided to join PhotoShelter. By far the worst part about hard drive failure is how it keeps coming back to haunt you. Every few months a client, magazine or newspaper will call asking for images that were on that drive. At that point, I'm not sure what's worse, the painful reminder or the lost revenue. I had an external drive that died taking about 350GB of photos with it – RAW, JPEG, retouched PSDs, everything. The head crashed into the platters so nothing was recoverable. That’s right about the time I bought a Drobo and decided to join PhotoShelter. By far the worst part about hard drive failure is how it keeps coming back to haunt you. Every few months a client, magazine or newspaper will call asking for images that were on that drive. At that point, I’m not sure what’s worse, the painful reminder or the lost revenue.

]]> http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/lost-photos-5-gut-wrenching-stories/#comment-18931 Scott Thompson Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:40:25 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/03/lost-photos-5-gut-wrenching-stories/#comment-18931 Many years back, my PC froze and I hadn't backed up my data to my external hard drive in quite some time. I thought I had lost countless hours of scanning and retouching work. While my computer was in the shop, I couldn't sleep at night, literally. Fortunately, they were able to retrieve my data but my computer was toast and it took a long time getting the new computer set up. Now I have a solid backup plan. So when my MacBook Pro's hard drive fried about a year ago, I slept with a smile on my face. I knew all my best photos were backed up on Photoshelter, all of my data was backed up on external hard drives and to crashplan.com. But what really saved me was a recent Mac Time Machine back up. Thanks to a clean Time Machine restoration of my computer after the drive was replaced at no charge, I was back up and running in a couple days. However I still can't convince my in-laws to back up their laptop... Many years back, my PC froze and I hadn’t backed up my data to my external hard drive in quite some time. I thought I had lost countless hours of scanning and retouching work. While my computer was in the shop, I couldn’t sleep at night, literally. Fortunately, they were able to retrieve my data but my computer was toast and it took a long time getting the new computer set up. Now I have a solid backup plan. So when my MacBook Pro’s hard drive fried about a year ago, I slept with a smile on my face. I knew all my best photos were backed up on Photoshelter, all of my data was backed up on external hard drives and to crashplan.com. But what really saved me was a recent Mac Time Machine back up. Thanks to a clean Time Machine restoration of my computer after the drive was replaced at no charge, I was back up and running in a couple days. However I still can’t convince my in-laws to back up their laptop…

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