My backup plan...
Why more backup?... is the question that my wife/friends always ask me when I mention the keyword " backup "... Since I lost several of my pictures after the sudden death of my "warehouse" disk back in 2001, I decided to always keep a second copy of my files. About two years ago my DELL computer died and I was able to recover about 99% of my files thanks to the double copy I had... but all the pictures got corrupted metadata and I had to manually update their info on a picture-by-picture basis. I haven't finished yet. Since then, I decided to change my backup strategy. If you look around, you will find cases of people who lost +8000 of their pictures , or, as one friend, who reinstalled his /home partition in top of is *only copy of tons of pictures*. If you value your data, you should have backup. And a second copy on an external hardrive is never enough says Scott in this blog post . Anyways... I wanted to share here my backup plan. It may inspi