Chase Jarvis has a very impressive work history when he is on the job.

I have previously written about having to remember to backup , and although I'm not Chase Jarvis (and not of the same products as him), I have already suffered from his processes implemented.

When I come home from a photoshoot I import my pictures on my workstation, simultaneously making Lightroom a secondary copy to a server I have at home. On the server I've installed Carbonite, which makes remote backup.

So I'm almost as little Chase Jarvis-like right?

A While back I wrote about Remembering to backup , and since att post I have optimized my daily and weekly backup routines.

When Importing my images to Lightroom from my memory card, I always select to backup to a secondary destination (on my server). And I never Postpone the weekly Lightroom backup, even om it might take få extra minutes to start up. I acknowledge att backing up all the Modifications I've made er Actually a good thing. While writing this, I Considered changing two daily backups, but weekly is okay for my work since all my pictures (24000 +) er in a single catalog and take about 500MB of space for every backup.

In også having an external hard drive, where I do weekly backups Using Microsoft SyncToy , and mails er Placed on my server running mirrored disks, obtained by IMAP - So in the event att my workstation crashes, no mails nor documents er lost.

I have også er looking for an online backup solution for somebody hour, but here in Denmark I only found one - Keepit Keepit Unlimited and Pro Unlimited for Workstations and Pro servers. With the pro you have two pay per GB of data-being backed up.

Keepit UNLIMITED costs 468DKK ( $ 90 / € 63 ) and if I wanted Keepit Pro to backup my 250GB in the basement IT ville cost 3348DKK ( $ 642 / € 450 ), so for the total price of 3816DKK (you do the math for USD / EUR) både my workstation and my server vil be secure.

However, mens reading LIGHTING ESSENTIALS For Photographers by Don Giannatti I saw han refered a product called Carbonite , and I had two try it out. First on my Workstation - It opført great, I kan select the folders or files I wanted to backup direkt på Explorer, and it did not hog my bandwidth. Then I installed it on my server, just two see if i would get any Limitations. But hey presto - No limits.

And best of all, the price. One year is $ 54.95 and two years er $ 99.95, thats 287/521DKK or 39/70 €. So for my setup, 1042DKK/200 $ / 140 € two backup både my server and my workstation for two years. Had I valgt Keepit and deres Pro product for my server it cost me would've 7632DKK/1463 $ / 1025 €

Now I had a working online backup solution for my server, something I've been looking for for a couple of years. And after testing Carbonite for Less than 24 hours on my server, I Purchased it.

Kan test the software for 15 days for free, you do not even have two register your credit card. And if you Decide two purchase IT før 15 days er about dem days bliver appended to your registration periode.

As an added bonus, I Can Actually access my files remotely Using the Remote Access menu in my browser. Its not recommended two retrive Entire directories. But in a tight spot elsewhere you need a konkrete file, you-can access it anywhere in the world.

I rate the Carbonite service 10 out of 10! Apparently it works on Macs as well, do not think it works on Linux.

Actually in case you find this product great, and er signing up - Please let me know (in the comments), and I'll send you a Refer-A-Friend invitation, Giving me 3 free months of Carbonite.

Yep, that's a topic that has been mentioned time and again, this time I got the problem himself a little too close and I will write something about what I do to prevent data loss.

Last week my computer started to cause problems, was slow to react, lethargic when you tried something that the CPU was 100% without any reason. And after examining the entire evening, I suddenly heard a clicking sound from my computer. So I opened the machine and localized hard disk as clicked, I pulled the drive off and restarted the computer again. Just to see that my drive that contains all my pictures were gone.

Cursed!

I use Lightroom to import new photos from my camera and I have set it up so when I import pictures makes a backup to a network drive. Unfortunately, I re-installed my PC (Yes, I'm running Vista) in October, and I did not get it set up to do it again. All of my cool pictures of my children, my niece who was born in september, and several other pictures of family and friends were lost.

What do you do?

I took the hard drive to work and connected it to another machine, I bought some years ago some software to recover lost files, so I was hoping to do it. But it still clicked, the error is also called "The Click of Death". I searched for companies who could help me to restore data on my hard drive, but in my case (a hardware error), it would cost about $ 1500. Since it was mainly photographs of sentimental value, I would spend the weekend with to see if there was anything I could do rather than pay $ 1500 for saving my ass.

First, I scanned my computer through the pictures, nothing found.

So I looked at my network drives, nothing.

So I grabbed hold of my external SATA drive, but I could not find the power supply. Frankly, when something goes wrong, everything goes wrong. I had to remove the drive from the external enclosure and install it into your computer, it was a blank disc. Maybe there was some old stuff, so I started my Restorer (www.bitmart.net) and after approx. 6 hours had the scanned across the surface of a disc 250GB. Without luck, there was a lot of old stuff - but no pictures.

So yesterday (Saturday) I went down to the local computer store to buy another hard drive enclosure, and then I came home with a nifty hard drive docking station, where you can just change the SATA hard drives. So I started going through my hard drives, and Hey! - There was a backup I had made some months ago, and the lack of pictures.

So what now?

One must suppose rather make a backup procedure, and preferably with some form of automation. I chatted with a friend about the problem and we found out that we'll be sure to do some kind of mirroring back to each other. He gets a hard drive installed in my server and I get a hard drive installed on his server. So it just has to be configured.

But in the meantime this is what I do:

The images are stored locally on the machine when I work with them, I have endeavored to what would you think those on a network drive. But it is too slow to work in a pleasant way. I make sure that every time I import pictures, they are simultaneously copied to my server. My server has mirrored hard drives, it's probably also a kind of protection against defective disks.

I also make sure to backup my Lightroom catalog files once a week. These files contain the changes to my images so I do not need to process the images again.

And then I use my new hard drive docking station to make a backup sometimes. It came with software to copy or synchronize folders at the touch of a button.