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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonMind" data-source="post: 381275" data-attributes="member: 5637">It's me and my determination not to waste energy that's to blame. It's not that working solutions aren't available. But having all those disks run permanently would suck up quite a bit of power, and additionally, those drives make noise and produce heat, both things I don't like (the heat, again, being mostly due to energy wasted). And while I appreciate cloud storage for some things, I want stuff like my RAW files on-site, and only there. I'll have to ramp up my discipline and patience and try harder.Just now getting ready to order new HDDs, new housings and storage boxes, as well as preparing for the recovery (though it'll have to wait for a couple of days or even weeks - I have major exams to correct, that has the highest priority now). For the time being, everything is safely stored, nothing's physically destroyed. I have hope.As for solutions, I'll simply do daily backups from now on. It's a two-minute affair to arrange this, and I can trigger it (semi-automatically - confirmation after deploy) right after pulling the RAW files into storage. It's super-easy. All the more embarassing that I simply failed to do this up to now. After doing that, I can switch off most storage - which, in most ways, makes the solution even more secure. I'm also planning for disc rotation (physical hard-drive swapping, with redunancy) for the RAW file target drive - one drive in physical storage with "last month's" backup. I'm almost done with planning and arranging this stuff ...Something to serve as a heads-up: I think I ran into this also because I hardly ever throw things away but use older discs to oblivion - which is exactly what happened this time. It's *not* a good idea to do this with critical files. It's no big deal for stuff that's transitional (or stored in the cloud as well anyway - work related stuff and cloud account mirrors), but for things I want to put away and clear the sources thereof, it's tantamount to juggling eggs. Things *will* smash and you'll end up with one hell of a mess - it's just a question of when.M.</blockquote>

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