I am gradually returning to the real world. Things weren't helped by having to spend the best part of a week rebuilding my 2TB RAID array, because I had to replace all 4 hard disks. If you don't know how a RAID array works, it maintains data redundancy, which is great because when it fell over I didn't lose any data at all. However, when you have to all the disks it has to be done one at a time, and with the amount of data I have, each disk rebuild was taking 27 hours. It's all good now, though, and in addition I now have another 2TB archive disk and a another set up as a twice weekly back-up. My archived files total about 5TB, and I am only keeping the last 12 months of shoots on my live system. The next step is to build myself a file server, probably with 8-10TB of disk space.

I have two long work trips in the next 10 days, plus a heap of dance images to edit and get to clients, but during my breaks I am trying to plow through messages here.