>Photos are usually best archived to DVD. But if you've got 200gb of >archival photos it would take a month to burn all that. > Yeah... I've looked into DVDs for backups. When I first started the biz, I used CDs for backup - one in my desk, the other into my safe deposit box but that's gotten somewhat full, plus it's a hassle having to go to the bank every few weeks.
>Question 1: Is that entire 200G archival photos? I know you shoot huge >raw files for a given project, but after you pick out a few keepers >and save them as jpgs or something, then it's time to delete the bulk >of the raw stuff. Most of the photos are jpgs. Some are the original 'raw' format, but that's on a job-by-job basis. Figure 95% are jpgs and those have been sorted through so the non-keepers are not kept. >Otherwise, you may be a good candidate to early adopt blu-ray. Burners >are maybe $300, blanks ~$15, and they can hold ~25gb. I was considering that. One concern is longevity - will whatever format (or media) I use will available upwards of 10 years down the road. >Never use the words "hard drive" and "archival" in the same sentence. I usually try not to but it seemed to fit. >Hard drives can and do fail suddenly and without warning. See my comment about my 1+ year old hard drive dying (the one that's part of the RAID). That's why I don't trust "just" one hard drive. I want to be sure I've got a backup to my backup (and quite possibly a backup to that). On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Larry Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to jump into the RAID vs No-RAID fray... but I seek a relatively > easily managed data backup solution. I've got a photography business > and am trying to keep photos from various shoots around. At this point, > I'm mostly looking for the hardware answer. I'll worry about the > software side of things down the road. > > I'm open to suggestions for data backup? I can't (or won't) rely on > just 1 hard drive. DVD backups are a possibility, as are CD. > > I'm currently using about 200 or so gb disk space. ************************************************************************ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
