Gour wrote on Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:25:36 +0100 > I was faced with a similar problem - preserving ~100hrs of my mother's > Hi8 material and dilemma how to preserve it properly. > > After some consideration, I gave up idea on using DV tapes since the > DV camcorders are going to disappear soon and you still lose quality > when storing/restoring to/from DV tapes. > > I ended up buying a LTO-2 tape drive (yes, they're expensive, but the > old material is precious one), but may I suggest you to take a look at > eg. HP StorageWorks DAT 160 USB Tape Drive > (http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/dat160usb/index.html) > > enabling you to store 80GB uncompressed (~6hrs) on one DAT cartridge. >
Yes, data backup streamer tape may well be an optional backup solution also for video tapes. Indeed I've used backup tapes on my office on Unix/Linux several years. Currently I'm considering a high capacity 400GB Sony AIT hotswap unit for use in the next server: http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowProduct.action?product=AIT-3Ex+Hot+Plug&site=biz_en_GB&pageType=Overview&imageType=Main&category=AIThigh But data backup tapes are also magnetic and offline backup that require to be restored. Beside I also plan to burn the video on long life durable 50GB BD-R optical disks as online backup for playback. Currently the external, portable LaCie d2 Blu-Ray burner looks of intereset as it can be connected with both FW and USB2 (hopefully it will be upraded to 4x speed). The drawback is that it that LaCie only support Windows and Mac. What one can hope is that it may work with standard FW and USB drivers in Linx and by using Nero Linux 3 burner software with support for Blu-Ray does work: http://www.lacie.com/no/products/product.htm?pid=10867 http://www.nero.com/eng/linux3.html --- Terje J. Hanssen _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
