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Photos, videos that is ... you would think this guy would have known better!
 
Ouch! That is a serious loss!

I suppose we're all guilty of skipping those backups, or not doing enough in terms of duplication etc / offsite backups.
 
An interesting news story, and advertisement for Amazon all rolled into one.

But yes, I'm surprised this chap didn't at least have other drives kept at a different address.

Maybe he'll get lucky. Stranger things have happened.
 
TBH I do move all my pictures onto a hard drives, but they are in the house too, don't use any online storage.
I know a lot of peiople who just keep them on the PC and get upset when it fails !!!!
 
That's unlucky to have all the backups stolen! I have a weekly backup hdd mounted inside my pc and a monthly backup usb hdd stored at my home in a place a thief would not likely find so my main risk would be the whole building being destroyed by fire. If that was the case then loosing my photos would be the least of my worries!
 
it does make you think.... considering one of his prints went as well.... could it have been targeted?
 
I save mine onto two usb hdds, one is kept in the house and the other one at my workplace.
 
I guess it matters more if you are a 'pro' and the images are your livelihood, keeping everything at home is always going to be a commercial risk ... and (I'm guessing here) if his life's work was on those disks, did he even have another backup to mitigate disk damage/failure?
 
gramps said:
I guess it matters more if you are a 'pro' and the images are your livelihood, keeping everything at home is always going to be a commercial risk ... and (I'm guessing here) if his life's work was on those disks, did he even have another backup to mitigate disk damage/failure?
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I don't think it matters more to a pro tbh.
For instance if it's joe schmoe whose images include pictures of deceased family members, maybe parents or a child, and the only files have been held privately, how is that a greater loss than this chap, many of whose images have been uploaded to one news agency or another at some point.
At least for him perhaps a low res image might be recoverable from that source.
 
Storage is so ridiculously cheap these days it's not difficult for anyone to have off-site backups.
 
I feel for the guy.

Only ever lost a few photographs, now back up to two eternal drives and been backing up to Dropbox for the last two days.

Cheers.
 
And people call me paranoid for keeping one of my backup drives in my parents' safe!

Poor sod though, must be devestated!
 
My photos are so bad fire and water won't touch them.
 
I'm completely disorganised. Photographs scattered over several PCs/laptops, and a few random backups on external drives. My wife lost a lot of her photographs when the hard drive in her computer died, but she can't remember what they were, and doesn't seem to be too bothered about it. I've tried a few recovery methods, but no luck, and I can't afford to get professionals to look at it.

Keep telling myself to sort out a backup system, and keep putting it off...maybe one day.
 
Mine are duplicated on mirrored drives in the NAS. They back up any changes to Amazon Glacier every night and once a month I back up the whole NAS to an external drive that does not live in the house. So, at any given time there are at least two copies, the next day there are three and within a month 4.
 
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