As I recently posted, I got a 1T internal drive to be my main photography drive. I already had 2 external drives that would become two alternating backups of all my data. I'd previously been using one external drive as primary and the second one as backup, so the hope was to have a faster drive for actual photo manipulation and then two slower drives to hold backups.
I got that new drive installed, loaded all my photos on it and started using it.
this and the first 4x5 scans from my recent vacation were loaded directly to that drive and I processed them there. I've got some wonderful 16x20 prints from those.
Then I went to reconfigure my backups so that the new drive would be the primary and get backed up to the external drives.
And happily typed the name of that new drive into the destination field.
And kicked off a backup. I realized something was wrong pretty quickly, but it seems that all that new data (prior to July 4) is toast.
This is the first time I've had big data loss, and let me tell you, it sucks. That picture of a cicada casing? There were 2-3 others from the same session that had a lot of promise. 4 negative scans (almost 2 hours of work right there) with 2 of those fully processed (another 2 hours of work). Gone. I can be thankful that it wasn't more, but it still really sucks to lose anything.
It's going to be hard to make myself re-scan those images and reprocess them, since re-doing things always feels like drudgery. All the discovery is over, so all that's left is mechanically reproducing what I already did. That's not what photography is about. Photography is about seeing and discovering things.