Hard drive backup strategy for 2021.
A 4TB drive that I use just died on me during early December. I have a back up of most of the data on the drive. 3-2-1 backup system.
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Gear that I work with
Professional film stock I work with https://imaging.kodakalaris.com/photographers-photo-printing/film/color
I keep my camera in a Lowepro camera bag
https://www.lowepro.com/us-en/magnum-400-aw-lp36054-pww/
When I am photographing landscape images I use a Manfrotto tripod
https://www.manfrotto.com/us-en/057-carbon-fiber-4-section-geared-tripod-mt057c4-g/
A lot of my film portfolio was created with the Nikon N80 and Nikon F4
https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/f4.htm
https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/n80.htm
The Nikon D2H and Nikon D3 were used to create many of the digital images on this site https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond3 https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond2h
Two lenses I am using all the time are the 50mm f1.8 and the 17-40mm f4
https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/5018daf.htm
https://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/17-40mm.htm
Some astrophotography and documentary video work was created with the Sony A7r
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-a7r
I am currently taking photographs with a Canon 5D
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii
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I am Billy Newman, a photographer and creative director that has served clients in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii for 10 years. I am an author, digital publisher, and Oregon travel guide. I have worked with businesses and individuals to create a portfolio of commercial photography. The images have been placed within billboard, print, and digital campaigns including Travel Oregon, Airbnb, Chevrolet, and Guaranty RV.
My photographs often incorporate outdoor landscape environments with strong elements of light, weather, and sky. Through my work, I have published several books of photographs that further explore my connection to natural places.
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169 Billy Newman Photo podcast mixdown Backup And Archive
Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I appreciate you guys checking this episode out, coming into 2021. Now pretty cool that we’re here. There you go. 2020 Thanks a lot. I was thinking about talking about some of the studio stuff that I’ve been up to the last couple of months of podcasts; I’ve been really focusing on some of the outdoor wilderness kind of photo trip stuff that I’ve done in relation to the kind of going outside of moving around. But yeah, as am not as accustomed to the podcast. I also try and talk about some computer stuff and some studio stuff, too. So I wanted to talk a bit about what I’ve been trying to do. And now that it’s kind of wintertime, especially these months here through the holidays, through like thanksgiving to Christmas, I wasn’t going out to travel or jump around much at all. I should have gone fishing more. That’s kind of like when my fishing license ended. Now I got to get my fishing license renewed in 2021. I want to go out earlier this year and try and hit up a couple of spots. I’m trying to do more of that stuff of like learning to fish a little bit better and a little bit more regularly. And there’s a couple of ponds that are sort of near my house that I am able to go to that. I can use that recreation pass to get free parking there. But I think they stock those ponds with trout. And then, as it kind of gets closer to the summertime, there’s like Sunfish and crappie that are in the pond and stuff. And I’m trying to do just some sort of fun recreational fishing in the morning. But there’s also the Alsea River out here that really comes into its own, just like this last month through November for like this winter steelhead season. And then I think it comes in through like February, and it gets back into steelheading and stuff. So that’s pretty cool. I haven’t really gone steelhead fishing before; I haven’t got a steelhead tag before. So just kind of been doing the trout fishing stuff out of the rivers and stuff around this area. But it’s been kind of fun doing that sort of stuff. And it’s also been pretty light stuff too. But getting into the studio stuff, I’ve been trying to do some studio work, and I’ve been trying to set up some studio lights, which is kind of fun. And it’s really like a good time of year to do it sort of as soon as you have this like rainy or winter you’re part of Oregon’s winter season, and it’s kind of nice to be inside a little bit. And to have a couple of projects going on this time of year, I’m really trying to lock in automating some work for the rest of the year. So what I’m trying to do through January and part of February, what I’ve also been trying to do through December is get a couple of books that I want to come out. I want to get those prepped and really almost done. And then I can have that ready to release in February, ready to release in April, ready to release in June. And then I can kind of stage those things out through the year. But a lot of that preparatory work is already done. Now during this kind of block of studio time where I can kind of focus myself on being inside and doing some more desk work, that sort of stuff. And so there’s a lot of sales work stuff that I got to get to. But that is going to be stuff that I do kind of later in the year. And that sort of comes up into its own season. But for some of this content stuff, some of the studio work that I’m trying to put together, I can do that now through a period of time in the winter, and sort of do a lot of the inside indoor work, trying to put together some book, writing some text stuff, and then also try and put together some kind of studio video stuff and some of the editing stuff that I need to get through. So I’ve been trying to go through and one of my efforts and what I’ve already kind of been working on a sort of since the fall was trying to do some sort of photo screencast video channel, and I’m trying to get that together, I’ve been working on the format of it a little bit, and trying to make it something that’s functional and compelling. But also sort of a simple amount of work. That just I don’t want to overcomplicate sort of the thing I’ve seen is a problem. And a lot of YouTube channels or a lot of pieces of content that are out there is that they sort of get a little too fancy, I guess would be an easy way to put on it but a little too complicated, a little too few many editing processes that that kind of all end up stacking upon each other and making a project I think too difficult to really commit to continuing to do unless everything’s all sort of condensed into, you know, a single production act or something. So, I’m trying to go through and sort of structure out some of these pieces a little bit more like that, where I can go in, and I’m trying to do a screencast where I do and go through and talk about like a photo that I worked on, talk a little bit about it, but then also really a lot of it is about talking about specific adjustments and changes to do in Lightroom specifically in this case, but then kind of more overall in photo editing and sort of bringing out some certain aspects and a photo through a maneuver of photo editing. So it kind of talks about like going into black and white or going into color editing or trying to change like Hue and Saturation to bring out more feeling of a photo and then also kind of trying to identify what is like the photo saying or what is it when I took the photo Am I trying to describe and all that should be kind of a clear Message of communication from the moment that you kind of pick up the camera and try and grab something to communicate to them when you bring it into your editing studio, and try and pull out those elements that you saw that you liked at the beginning of it. And so that’s sort of some of the stuff that I’m doing to try and bring out some different images. And I’m also trying to assemble assemble those edited images into pieces of content that’ll go up and then pieces of video content that’ll go up, and then also books that I’m trying to put together. So the books have been kind of fun; I’m talking about photo books for a long time; there’s a couple of photo books up on my website that you can go to. Some people call them monographs. I don’t know totally what that means. I think that’s when it’s specifically a multiple number of photos about one specific piece of work or one specific thing, you know, so you could do a monograph about a statue, and then it’s a number of or a monograph about this flower garden. And then it’s photos from that flower garden. I think a lot of my work is a little bit more abstracted from that about different locations, different times, different sequences of events, that all kind of get accumulated together to sort of describing a more full context of something later, than than something all at once like, instead of like taking pictures of just like one single camping trip or something, I’d like to kind of put together a book of all the camping trips have gone on, then sort of assemble, you know, those images and kind of talk a little bit about, like the camping stuff that I do, like I’ve talked about in this podcast are camping tips or tricks or that kind of stuff is I want to try and write it out and also visualize it. And a lot of the photographs that I’ve got from working in the field over the last, you know, 11 years or so. So I want to try and put all those photographs together in use. And with a lot of like new video, new photos and stuff too. And I’m trying to put together some fine art stuff; it’s been kind of cool, having a little bit more time to sort of shuffle these photos around and play with them. And then look at these these different images sort of in combination with each other and sort of see what is cool and what works well. And what kind of plays off each other well. And then I’m hoping to put those out as digital services through the year so that there’s some fine art books of the photographs that I’ve made going out. But I also want to have those as as like fine art print books available too. And I think that’s really cool getting to have like that full printed desktop piece of work available. And as it is part of the style that I’m going through right now is just to make them as simple as possible, I really tried to do big images, sort of nearly full screen on the page. As it prints, I’m also trying to not mess with my bleeds too much. That’s sort of another complication. You think like, Oh, just fullscreen everything or whatever it is, I really don’t like how that recaps my images. And I really don’t like how the what is it like the print threshold sort of clips, a little bit of that bleed line off. So it always kind of pulls a little bit of my photo. So what I’m trying to do is leave like a white rim and then get my photo as it was originally cropped whether like five by seven or square or rectangle or kind of near panoramic. And I’m trying to lay that out in the photo in a way. So that it kind of represents the photo as it was originally or you know, in its best method of showing it in a print. And, and it’s kind of it’s kind of cool going through all these pictures, kind of set them up in these, these layouts, and then looking at them as format and an ebook and then also to be produced into different photo books. And I’ve got a few of my photo books around. It’s cool. It’s over, like the holidays and stuff. I’ve got the the bookshelf out, we had the tree app and stuff had the bookshelf app, and I’d been pulling out like different photo books that I’d had. And then kind of leaving those out on the tabletop and going through them and looking at these different pictures and stuff that I’ve gone through over the years. And it’s fun to get to see that sort of stuff or to get to go through and like oh man, yeah, I remember seeing these pictures and having that, that real tactical, or that tactile, physical object that artifact in front of you is is a cool part of making art and making products and taking photos and stuff. So that’s what I’m trying to do a bit and kind of get set up with a few of those sort of loaded in the chamber for 2021, which has been pretty fun. And so that’s kind of some of the studio work that I’m going through. And a lot of that is like yeah, jump into, like the screencast F and kind of trying to like line up stuff so that I get to sort of knock off a few jobs all at once. So with the screencasting stuff a little bit is I’ve gotten into Lightroom, and I’ve made these different collection of sets of photos that I want to try and get into re-edit tweaked a little bit recrop and like I’m saying kind of get ready for print in these photo books. And then also to equally go out in these these photography ebook collections of you know, fine art photography ebook collections. So as it goes through and make the edits of this photo and I’m gonna try and do is do a screencast video so I capture the video from the computer of me working on the photograph and then kind of walking through it and talking about the different steps and changes that I’m making. And then also trying to get a wider shot like a real view of my hands and stuff working and sort of the the tack the tactile elements and changes and stuff that I make into the to the photograph and I’ve got a way of displaying that that I think should work. Okay, maybe it’ll just be complicated, but we’ll see how it goes. But I’m trying to put together this set of screencasts I can put up I’ll probably add them up or have them end up on YouTube for a while, we’ll kind of see what other video opportunities there are out there for me. But as it goes, just kind of for a shorter thing, it’ll be on my website and on the YouTube channel, so that I can have some some video content of editing some photos. And hopefully, that’s the part of a solution to a problem that people might have out there. No, there’s no shortage of people editing three different pieces, but but I also think that I should have kind of my take on how to work with photographs and how to move some stuff around. And I think I have some ideas that are different than what other people are sometimes talking about. But we’ll see how it is, I don’t know, probably a lot of will be utilitarian sort of stuff of just do this. And this is how that gets done. And then other stuff will be I think, a little more artsy is sort of how it’s gone, where I’m kind of talking about different ideas, or sort of kind of the, the, the artistic kind of poetic part of the human, the human part of taking photos, especially taking landscape and nature photos, we don’t really see the eyes and the personality of the person in front of you, you have to sort of represent the eyes, and the interest and the the meaning of a photograph of nature. And you have to kind of find out like those pieces that make it as interesting as a person’s human face. So it’s kind of an interesting kind of tricky thing to do sometimes. So it’s kind of cool. That’s sort of what I’m trying to explore with, with doing some of these screencast pieces, probably video overall is going to be a bigger part of some of the work that I’m trying to assemble over this next year. But trying to look at like some live streaming options, talked about that a little bit before doing some stuff with with Twitch. And then I’m also looking at the YouTube live streaming options. And I’m trying to look at different pieces of software like I was working with the twitch software that is like the twitch live streaming Studio software that they have. I downloaded that I tried it out, it’s working well. It’s working pretty simply, I can kind of handle some some easy stuff with that. And then I’m also looking at the the open broadcasting software that I think is also out there. I think it’s a free service, I think it’s open source. And I think it’s also pretty pretty well developed. But you can download that that OBS software and then if you do a bit of configuration on it, you can get a computer that you have set up as a live streaming server with a few different scenes intros, outros, and really almost no time. And you can have like a pretty professional stream set up just as the rest of the live streamers do out there. So live streaming is cool. I don’t know if I have an exact use for it for the photography, stuff that I do. But I’m also trying to figure out a way of sort of implementing that and implementing some video and YouTube channel stuff around the photographs that I have, but outside of an informational way, trying to do that in a more surreal, abstract, artistic way of sort of demonstrating some content and and doing some live streaming and stuff with that. So hopefully I can kind of get get that all up and running and in line. And I have a lot of content and stuff that I have to make for that as my idea for live streaming really used to do a bunch of pre-recorded elements of abstract kind of nature elements and then assemble those together so that I have like a pretty extended period, video of streaming. And so try to do that in sort of an abstract way. And we’ll kind of see about a couple of the the ideas that I have right now and how they come together over time. But it’s cool. And I’ve kind of learned some stuff about it. And I’m getting to check out some some cool pieces of video while I’m up to it. So it’s kind of given me a couple of good ideas. And that’s, that’s something that’s kind of fun. It’s it’s always fun to have a couple new ideas coming come through. So one thing I wanted to talk about, and in part of this was working with YouTube and kind of figuring out different things that I want to do with YouTube. Part of that is is working to make what do I say like, we’re gonna make an archive, or we’re going to, to keep some of the videos and some of the pieces of content that you come across on the internet. Like I think just like a month ago, the Joe Rogan podcast, I listen to that one all the time, that when you know when exclusive to Spotify, so the videos are off YouTube, the podcast, mp3, or off the feed stream that used to be available on the podcast app. And so now it’s only exclusively available through Spotify. Cool, and it works fine. And it’s nice, but you don’t have those videos available to you on YouTube anymore. And so there’s a whole bunch of YouTube videos that have come and gone or have been, what is it like restricted to restricted by your geographic region, I’ve had a bunch of music that I listened to get restricted by geographic region. And these are just sort of weird remixes and bootlegs and stuff, I probably won’t be able to find them again, or it’s a bunch of these kind of like independent music producer DJs over the last 10 years that really only ever put their album out on on SoundCloud, you know, let alone YouTube or Spotify or, or whatever it is. So you just kind of find these sort of strange versions laid out in different places. So one of the things I’m trying to do is build an archive of different videos that I think are cool or interesting or the ones that I want to have around me Trying to use this tool to do that, and I’ve been learning about it. It’s called YouTube dash DL; I don’t know if you guys have worked with terminal, or if you have a Mac, I think you can now use it with, with Windows like when 32 e xe systems. But you go to I think if you search for YouTube dash DL, you’ll go to this, this YouTube download page, I think it’s a, it’s a good a terminal, they have a web page, they have some documentation on how to use it. But you also have to go to GitHub to download the binaries. Or you have to go to GitHub to get some of the parts of it or get some of the information of it. But it’s a terminal program. So that means that it’s like all text input, there’s no graphic user interface to help you like click a button, you know, insert the link, click the button, have the video download, it’s not really quite like that. It should be maybe, I guess there’s people that might have worked with, with these kind of tools to make to make some graphical software that can do YouTube downloading stuff. But this has really worked the most seamless, and has gotten me the best quality results. So far, outside of some of those free youtube downloading software sites, I think there’s been like a few websites that have sort of performed the services for me, and they haven’t really been as high quality. And they haven’t provided me and ad free experience. There’s a lot of ads, there’s a lot of spam, there’s a lot of what seems like kind of weird spyware stuff. And I don’t really want to download video, like large files for those sites, let alone small files from those sites. So this YouTube dl features work pretty well. And what it does is it kind of works out of sort of the, the internet system, if you put a URL of a page in that has a video file linked on it, this system in terminal will grab that file, select the best quality web downloadable file that it has, I think by default, it’s been mp4 every time for me. And you can download the video right from the YouTube page and you don’t see the YouTube page, you just go to the YouTube page in your normal browser, you grab that link of that video, specifically, you go to your terminal page, you type in YouTube dash DL, and you put a space and then do a dash f that’s like your modifier, I think this dash lowercase f allows you to select which version of the video to download. So then you have to put in your information about which video to download. That’s where you type in best. So it’s YouTube dash dl space, dash F, and then the word best. And then you copy and paste the link from the YouTube page into your terminal there, you hit Enter. And then the terminal program will run it says it’s going to the site it says it’s grabbing the file it says it’s downloading it, it downloads the video, then it downloads the audio, then it compiles the two of those four files together and then renders that out to a single file in a folder on your computer. And then now you have a high resolution mp4 of the video that had been on YouTube. So I’m trying to go around really, I’m trying to go around to my friends YouTube channels and find those videos that happened have me in the past or have my friends or have different events that we’ve had that I don’t have access to. Those are their photos, it seems like they are their videos at this point. And it’s probably since like 10 years old. Now I don’t even know if I could find some of it. But there’s copies of stuff that I don’t have that I want to have in this tool allows me to grab that file and keep it on my computer. So I can play it, put it on an external hard drive. And I have archived anywhere I want. That’s been pretty cool. And I was thinking about that after some of these podcasts went offline, I’ve had this happen to a couple other podcasts in the past where I think it was a podcast that was run through like a company like an iheart radio radio station that had an they had a person put out a podcast then that radio station component went out of business, not iheart radio, but just whatever this person’s component of that business was. And now that fee disappeared, and now whatever was hosting all those mp3 is is now gone. So you don’t get access to any of those radio shows anymore, or any of those podcasts anymore. And so having that kind of come through as a man, you know, someday, it’s gonna be hard to get ahold of some of these videos that I think it’s easy to get ahold of now. Or someday it’s like, Man, it’s just it’s all these things are going to be in the same spots forever. So if it’s if it’s in the top 10 and my favorite things that I kind of always seem to go back to, I’m going in and I’m trying to grab that and make an archive of that said I have a full copy of that on a hard drive stashed away on the side. But it’s cool. Yeah, I can kind of pull it up anytime, grab some of those, those videos that I’ve wanted to have in an archive and watch and we’re playing at any time and it’s cool for some of the other stuff that I’m trying to do like if you have like a playlist of music that you listen to on YouTube, but you want those artists to have or you want that copy of the song on your device or your phone or your computer so you can play it anytime you want without having to go to a YouTube page you can use this service, download that whole playlist of videos all at once almost seamlessly. And get that whole collection of videos, or you can have it select just the sound part of it you get kind of into the into the program enough. You can have a select just the audio for it. You can have just the sound come out of it, or you can download the whole music video itself. And others on a computer. But But yeah, I think YouTube doesn’t like it, you can also use this service on any other website too. So if you go to any website that has a video link file on it, it will be able to grab that file and in a pretty good way, it’ll be able to pull that video file down on your computer. So you can watch it as as just a full regular mp4 file. It’s pretty cool. I like and do some of that stuff. And it’s kind of fun getting to do it. But I don’t know, yeah, that’s kind of my advice to everybody is that make an archive, but there’s a bunch of data that’s out there that you want to have, and you’re not really sure how to get to it, but someone else is in charge of that, you should be in charge of it, if you can find a way to make an archive, or a backup of a bunch of the data that you want to have. I’ve tried to do that with all my photos personally, and all the videos that I’ve made, but there’s a bunch of videos and photos that other people have made that I don’t get to have a copy of. And so you can ask for it. It kind of comes and goes, you know, depending on the the capacity of small jobs that the other person has, but but a lot of time Yeah, that’s that stuff kind of gets lost, and I don’t have it or I don’t get to see it anymore. And a lot of my favorite shows or content or pieces get kind of pulled, and they just don’t get to exist anymore in the way that you would have preferred to have it. What was it? I think like this last year, the Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown was pulled from all services not allowed to be seen on television and only available through Apple TV. Is that right? pretty wild, huh? So I don’t know. Yeah, I want to have it. And I want to have it just on my computer. So I can watch it anytime. So I guess there are ways to go about doing that. And I think it’s it’s kind of cool to have a copy of some stuff archived back on your computer, I got Yeah, like a bunch of the podcasts I listened to I grabbed their full archive, and then just threw that on a big hard drive that I’ve got is easy to do, I was able to do it pretty quickly. podcasts are easy, because they want you to download you just kind of click download, download, download, download, download. And I was able to spike their server, you know, Spike their, their data charged for the month, I’m sure you know, these podcasts are big enough. My consequential download of 200 podcasts is probably small beans for what they’re used to. But it was cool. Yeah, going through getting a copy all that stuff. And now it’s like, well, Hey, I got all this stuff that I wanted to know. And the risk of kind of losing a bunch of this stuff isn’t really gonna happen. And just because I got a copy of it all, so yeah, make an archive by hard drives, they’re pretty cheap, you can get like eight terabytes, it’s like 140 bucks. It’s great. It’s why you can get so much now In fact, I just had a hard drive fail like a four terabyte drive I had. That’s what I’m talking about hard drives and backing up stuff; I’ll get into this more too. But God hard drive failed. The armor the hard drive got stuck up on the platters, I had to open it up with these, these hex screws. This drive I open the top, the top of the hard drive popped off and I see like this arm, then you know the other the arm is like this piece of comes out kind of like the pain on a record player or something, you know, the needle, you drop the needle on the platter. And then it reads the data there is kind of the idea. So these there’s like four platters that are stacked on each other. And then this this kind of pretty complicated arm system that reads that data. And then it ended up getting stuck up on that arm I think is part of some firmware failure problem. It’s all kind of complicated. But I opened it up, I reset the arm back down. And I still can’t read the data on the drive. So it’s just kind of making a weird scratchy sound now, which is worse. The good news is almost all the data that was on that four terabyte drive was backed up in a second location. So I’m able to rebuild, I’m able to reconstruct all the data that would have been on that drive that I would have lost. There’s a few things that I did lose that I am frustrated about. But it’s also not really a mission critical failure. Like I had a bunch of audio samples that were downloaded for logic, pro 10. I think like 80 gigabytes of samples, something like that is a big file to download, that guy erased, I didn’t have those files backed up those Sample Files. No problem, really, because I can just redownload all those files off of the internet again. And so I can get that data reconstructed the clouds a good solution, it doesn’t mean is lost forever. But it is also frustrating that it’s just not as fast to rebuild, or, you know, get right back to where I was in my working state. Without having like a physical drive that is just that drive backup. And so I’m really trying to get into that more of man, I gotta pay for another 100 bucks to get another really big drive to make a full backup of this stuff. That’s stays pretty current that I just kind of keep off to the side because if it exists once it doesn’t exist at all, and if it exists twice, you can count on existing only once and I think they say for photographers or for people that end up managing a lot of media data are in a lot of terabytes of data over a lot of years. What they say to do for filing this sort of stuff is have it exist in three places, you know, so you have a whole series of redundancies, where you have one that exists off-site, you have your data, you have a backup of that data that’s local, you have a backup of that data is duplicated local. And then you have another triplicate of that in an offsite location so that if something happens, you can get it back. I think a lot of people either have a hard drive that they lit up with all that information and leave it another house, or they have a hard, hard drive of information that they have transfer over a data connection up to a cloud service where they can store all that that information on a server, and then pull that off over time, sometimes the least expensive way to do that is by using the Amazon glacier services, which is like a glacial storage, or I don’t know what it really means. But it’s like this cold storage, it’s where the drive doesn’t spin up constantly, you can’t get to it right now, like in 30 seconds, you can’t go to an Amazon page like you can with an S two box and get your data active. It’s it’s in a cold storage system so that it’s been put on the internet, it’s on a disk, and then now it’s no longer spun up and active. And so when you want the data back, you kind of go to a portal, you select the Hey, I’m going to want to access this block of data. So make this active for me, and then it’ll be like 24 hours or something like that. And then you’ll have access to that, that bucket of data, again, out of cold storage, now it’s warmed up, now you can pull it down and get a copy of your data. And so always it’s a good idea. It’s cheap, it’s inexpensive to do that sort of stuff, but also so our hard drives in some ways. So sort of having like a mix of all these things sort of grouped together, is I think, a great way to kind of build a solid backup strategy, I feel a lot safer. Now having like all of my photos backed up on Amazon photos, it’s frustrating, because they’re going to use the data that they collect by reading that through computer algorithms to do more stuff in there, sort of artificial intelligence, facial recognition, image recognition, stuff that they’re trying to put together all that sort of the Big Bad Amazon image that’s out there. It exists, it exists. It’s also kind of the world that exists. And it’s also really nice to have all my silly landscape photos from cabbie chefs backed up in a place where if if I torch all my hard drives, I still do have that 10 years of work that I put in, in the past. So it’s not always up to date. It’s not always a perfect copy of the images. But it’s it’s kind of best way it just breaks down into having a backup, that is somewhere that I can kind of keep and it’s under control. And that’s really a cool part of it. Just having like a drive that you think is a good backup. Even like a pretty current backup of a lot of stuff. Like I was saying, I have this drive that failed, backed up. But the last month or so last three or four weeks or so of content that I put specifically on that drive is gone doesn’t affect my photos, which is great. That’s all kind of on its own sort of built out system. But it does affect like I was saying some sound stuff that I was recording, some video files, some stuff from my phone that I was transferring over to some like downloads and documents and stuff, all that sort of stuff kind of got poof, and I don’t think I can get it back. It’s kind of weird. So it’s great that I can rebuild most of it, it’s great that none of it was very valuable. But it’s not great to lose it. And it sort of feels weird when a hard drive goes toast. And man, if it’s your external hard drive, and you think well I put it on the external. It’s not on my computer anymore. So it must be backed up, man, I’ve just seen so many people get in hot water and not be able to get their data back because of some kind of system failure or operating system failure. Man, I have a ton in the past when windows would run for what two years or something, and then it would crash or crap out on some somebody’s computer from 2004 or five or six. And then I’d be asked to kind of, like get stuff out of the way it’s like, I don’t know, man, it’s I’m probably not gonna be able to get your documents or your saved game file off of this, it’s just gonna be wiped harddrive. And you’re gonna put a new version of Windows on it because it’s corrupt and there’s no backup. And that’s sort of where you get put at with a lot of these digital services as they exist now and they’re the kind of lack of fundamental lack of stability, kind of short term things as they are so it’s kind of weird kind of playing hopscotch like a hot potato system and getting it one working hard drive to the next working hard drive to the next working hard drive. And and kind of keeping that all in duplicate. So kind of trippy, but thanks for checking out this episode of the podcast. Listen to me talk about studio stuff, books, and hard drives. I think it’s a it’s all it’s all pretty fun. I’ll probably talk about more and more hard drive backup stuff in the future. But maybe we’ve all heard enough of that. Who knows. So I appreciate you guys tuning into this episode of the podcast. You can go to Billy Newman photo comm if you want to check out more information about me. 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