Digital Media Realibality

On the 29th of Nov I put my computer into standby and went to bed. When I woke up on Friday the 30th, I hit the power button and nothing happened. Well I take that back, the machine powered up but no beeps, no peeps, and as far as I could tell no creeps.

After this I quickly realized that my Lightroom database (not my photos) is saved in the default place (My Documents), and that my system drive is on my Raid 0 array that lives off of my motherboard. Yes I do have backups of my LRDB but I think they are all over a month old. So what I am hopping for is that when I get my new board I can rebuild the array with out destroying the existing array.

This quickly made me realize that my plan of having my LRDB and Images Primary and Main back live on a motherboard Raid 1 (Mirror) is also a bad idea. I would still have a raid tied to a motherboard raid controller. Aka my backup is not readable by another machine.

So I now have a plan of attack to backup my LRDB and Images. It is really simple and not dependent on any hardware. I have 2 500G SATA drives that I got to build into that RAID 1. I ordered 2 external eSATA/USB enclosures to put the drives in. So now I plug both drives into my machine (I would like to still also run a Data storage drive so I am going to have to figure out if I can boot with a drive plugged into my secondary controller). For this we will call them Main and Backup. After duplicating all the my images to both drives here is how I will set up Lightroom. LR has a auto copy when importing. That I will point to dupe my import to 'Backup'. LR also has a feature to backup your LRDB. I will set it to backup every time I start to 'Backup'. More importantly I am going to change my save place LRDB to a place on 'Main'.

Now if I have a system failure I just yank Main and Backup and move them to my spare machine with a generic controller. I can also yank this and take it over to a friends house or such. Even better when I get a laptop this same system is scalable to that.

Well if all works out I should have my machine back up sometime the week before Christmas.

--MikeD

Heigh Ho, The Holly

Thanksgiving shot



Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly;
most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.
Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly:
most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly;
most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.
Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly:
most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Heigh Ho, The Holly -- William Shakespeare

Grassoline

How about that price of oil...

Pinball Wizard

Paintball

Adam and Oly came by and said that they were that they were down the street shooting each other with paintballs. I decided to hike out there with them and shoot them with my Canon. Thanks for inviting me out there.

--MikeD