Sidelined by bad hard drive
Our iMac isn’t feeling well. On Friday it locked up and now refuses to boot. I ran diagnostics over the weekend and am trying to repair the hard drive, but it seems like the drive is completely toast. I plan on writing a post with the complete symptoms and tests in a day or so, but for now I wanted to let everyone know where we’d run off to.
The good news is that we bought the AppleCare extension so our repairs are covered. We also had been using an external hard drive for our Time Machine and everything should be backed up. I’ll let everyone know how that works. As a fall back I also backed up our 85 GB iPhoto library to our Drobo about a month ago so the worst case scenario is that we lose 1 month of photos.
Let this serve as a reminder to any other photo nuts that you MUST have a digital backup strategy. This is the second hard drive we’ve had crash without any warning. If a disk suffers a hardware failure there is no way to recover the data unless you send it away to a lab and take out a sizable loan to pay for a service that may not recover anything. Buying an external hard drive (or two!) is cheap in comparison. The ideal solution is something that is automatic, like Time Machine, and will perform regular backups without any human intervention.
Stay tuned to hear how we make out.
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Kudos to you for having a backup and a backup to the backup.
I’m ultra paranoid about backing up my client’s photos, much to my wife’s chagrin, to the point that I’ll tell her about it if she’s having trouble sleeping. So if any readers out there are suffering from insomnia, help yourself to photography backup strategies that has some good tips for backing up your data.
Looking forward to hear how things work out for you, but sounds like you’re in good shape.
Thank you for the tip!