Total Serious Happy Thread

[Ghoulish Delight]

I have narrowly avoided wiping out 9 years worth of digital photographs (and some videos). 24,000 files. 37GB.

Despite having carefully made several backup copies and contingencies. A perfect storm of failures and still mysterious circumstances left them inaccessible.

I've felt ill the past few days thinking about the worst case scenario. Hell, even the 2nd worst case scenario (that being if the files were recoverable, but without the directory structure or date-taken info, leaving a pile of 24,000 unsorted photos) was too horrible to imagine.

Thankfully my strategy of several backups did mean that all the data was sitting there undisturbed, just inaccessible and I've now recovered the whole lot, seemingly in tact.

I would not have enjoyed seppuku.

Time to rethink the backup and recovery strategy.