backup your files!

Seems like a no brainer but not everybody can get a neat system backing up their photographs (if they are backing stuff up, that is). If you're reading this and you haven't even have any backup of your photographs, stop reading and get yourself an external hard drive or something so you can get to work.

Files do get corrupted or lost or deleted or damaged or whatever that they'd seem unrecoverable.

Back them up!

Just now I realised that I have lost a chunk of my photographs taken between March to June 2010 (which were around 85GB), and that include my recent trip to Japan and Singapore. I thought I've backed them up twice to my two separate 1.5TB external hard drives. Can you imagine how I must have felt?

I'd describe it as a low level heart attack. Plus I feel stupid, careless and irresponsible.

So I dug straight onto my three other hard drives praying that those chunk of photos are backed up there.

They are.

I was so frickin' relieved!!!

I am now in the process of backing these files up to my 1.5TB external hard drive. I'll back it up to the second hard drive tomorrow evening.

Backup your files!!!