At 09:38 PM 11/20/04 -0500, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
>And if you don't have 3 copies to 3 different locations, you don't call
>it backup.  I learned in a hard way :-)

The whole issue of backup is already a nightmare, enough of one that even
the New York Times covered it last week.

Even if your backups are fine, you'll have to take on continuous updating
-- the museum archiving scenario -- because otherwise, someday and probably
sooner than you think, the hardware or software will no longer be there to
read the old files or formats.

At least Finale users are mostly concerned (at least today) with paper
results, and that can form the archive.

I think I mentioned this before, but I wrote a scary essay about this two
years or so ago, mostly aimed at electroacoustic composers whose work is
intimately bound up with media, software and hardware...
  http://maltedmedia.com/books/papers/sl-archv.html
....and last year, the question of corporate intervention in the process...
  http://maltedmedia.com/books/papers/sm-copyp.html

Dennis



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