The last week of last year, I lost 1.5 TB of storage and backup when two drives kicked the bucket in a perment way.  Everything on the 500gb MyBook was backed up, since the drive had never been all that stable.  I kept work files from a handful of clients that are always asking for old files, since I hate having to dig through my DVD backups.  The 1TB Maxtor drive had all my video work files, all my photos and my entire iTunes library.  To say that Ihaven’t been all that diligent in backing up this data would be putting it mildly.  All of it is gone, gone, gone.  Dan tried, far longer than he should have, to revive the drives. But short of very expensive data recovery, it wasn’t worth it.

I am rebuilding my iTunes by copying files from my ipods, and redownloading from iTunes, which they should offer at anytime, but are making it seem like it’s a big favor.  I think more than half of the pictures that I lost are backed up.  The photos that I took for Dan’s christmas gift, a calendar of all his guitars, are gone.  But we still have the guitars, so they can be taken again. I lost countless pictures of Devon, and his adorable-ness will have to re-cataloged for historical import. But client photographs are back-up.  The video work files are gone, with no backup.  This includes a lot of Fast Times footage that was shot for a video that never came to be. All the DC videos are up loaded to Youtube, but the quality is shit. I am counting it as a lesson and moving on.

So now I start 2009 with new drives, and a healthly respect for the massive backup DVD collection that I have, and will continue to grow.  It seems right that I am getting this fresh start at the beginning of the year. I wish you all better back-up karma!

How can you resist? Too cute to stand.