Help is on the way

To everyone else but me this is the most boring post ever. But believe me, from my perspective this is the best post of the year. Some of you may have seen my post from a few days ago when I had discovered a catastrophic disc failure. My entire Lightroom catalog was gone. Fortunately I had invested in a cloud backup service so all was not lost. I logged in to their web site, selected the failed drive from the list and they are preparing a disc for me now. Because of the size (almost 3 TB) it cannot be done over the internet which is why they will be sending me an external HDD from which I will copy the files then send the disc back to them. I have been told it will take approximately a week to prepare the disc, then 2-3 days shipping. Fine by me, I am leaving on a 10 day trip tomorrow so when I get back all should be well. I shall continue to view and comment on posts as time allows but will probably not be posting myself until my catalog is safely back on my new external hard drive. If any of you out there in 365 land don't have a secure back up plan in place take it from me, you should think about doing it really soon because disaster can, and will, strike without warning. It costs me US$70 per year and it is worth every nickel.

[Jane Pittenger]

SO glad you had good backup

[bkb in the city]

Glad it will all work out

[Diane]

I am SO glad you had a good backup and did not lose all your photos.

[LManning (Laura)]

Thank goodness for your foresight (or possibly distrust). Glad that there is light(room) at the end of the tunnel!

[Kathy]

Will you share the site where you have your cloud backup? Glad to hear they were able to recover your information.

[Chris Cook]

@randystreat I use Backblaze but there are a number of options out there. It pays to do a little research and pick the one that works best for you.

[Brian]

Good news. Have a safe trip.

[Casablanca]

Eek! Glad to see this post

[Joan Robillard]

I finally invested in a cloud backup. Now I just have to remember to run it more often. (this reminded me)

[Babs]

Good to hear it all ended well. Our computers do a weekly back up onto an external hard drive and as a further precaution we also plug in a second ehd and back up on that one too

[Joanne Diochon]

Happy and relived to see that you will be able to get your files back. I’m sure that knowing that will make your trip more enjoyable too.

[Chris Cook]

@joansmor If you subscribed to a cloud backup service the backup should be daily and automatic. You shouldn’t even have to think about it.

[Bucktree]

Thank goodness for your backup. Thy say, it’s not if your hard drive fails, it’s when will it fail.

[Kathy]

This looks pretty reasonable. I used one for awhile and now I can't remember why but I cancelled it.

[Steve Chappell]

Awesome, glad you have a great backup service. I use Backblaze, fortunately haven't had a total disk failure but have had to recover the odd file here and there

[Danette Thompson]

I agree! Best investment ever! I have had to restore my entire drive from a service.

[Peter Dulis]

oh oh