Damaged Laptop, my only device. (2 Viewers)

[Gregg Martin]

An HP model only 2 years old delaminated, screen and back, it then quit. New photos from that day's birding and all other days, months, years, not availaible to me now. 3 weeks until it is repaired. I must be careful in accumulating too many new photographs I imagine.

No Idea where to place this. I can still engage in Gallery and elsewhere. Using my wife's laptop which has no access to my photographs. In the larger scope of things a simple frustration.

 

[gerald762]

A good backup is a good investment!

 

[Gregg Martin]

A good backup is a good investment!

I see that now, but the thing failing me as it did, very unexpected.

 

[Kits]

What a nuisance, Gregg. I back up everything to the cloud even though I have a Mac, iPhone and iPad.

 

[Gregg Martin]

What a nuisance, Gregg. I back up everything to the cloud even though I have a Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Thank you Kits, of course I expected nothing to ever go backwards, your method is commendable.

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

Thumb drives, hard disc or solid state drives are all relatively inexpensive. I back up everything on an external drive and important stuff to the cloud and some things to a thumb drive.

Happy bird watch,
Arthur

 

[twitcherf]

Thank you Kits, of course I expected nothing to ever go backwards, your method is commendable.

To an extent, you are looking at this upside down - the way of looking at data security is not to look at how likely are you to lose it but to assess how important it is to you if you do lose it.

If the data isn't important then backups, cloud storage etc may not be worth the money/effort.

If, however, the data IS important then it follows that you should arrange to have copies (external hard drive/usb sticks/dropbox/OneDrive etc).

You have to assume you will lose your data if it is only on one device - that's single point of failure and it is only a matter of time before that is lost.

 

[Julie50]

I cloud my pics But I also do not delete them off the card also!

 

[ChrisMc1957]

Sorry to hear Gregg, I back up everything to the Cloud and keep as little as possible on my hard drive. One other benefit of doing it this way is that when I travel around the UK or abroad I take a small laptop with me that I can access everything on from the Cloud and can therefore work on stuff while sat in hotel rooms.