Two ideas - - 1. One challenge for cloud storage: the data reassembly after crossing a network. The video file can glitch en route to the server, or while being downloaded from the server. Data packeted to move through a single bus to the external drive isn’t bouncing around the ‘net … There’s a reason I’ve built ‘upload to youtube & redownload’ into some of my ‘screwing with the data’ experiments.
2. Thumb drives now come in very large storage sizes. Put an uncompressed digital video file on a thumb drive and put it in a safety deposit box at the bank. So if your local external drives all die in a fire, you have your thumb drives in a climate-controlled environment. Label them with numbers, keep a spreadsheet somewhere on your computer so you know where everything is. A photographer friend of mine does this with video; he keeps it all in a fire safe in his studio. Jessica * * * * * Jessica Fenlon artist : poet : experimental ~ http://www.drawclose.com On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:39 AM, Peter Mudie <peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au> wrote: > By their very nature clouds dissipate and vanish. I¹ve always felt it may > only be good as a temporary option - storing the data on external hd¹s > that can keep up with os upgrades the preferred choice. > Peter > Perth > > On 4/06/2014 12:57 pm, "Fred Camper" <f...@fredcamper.com> wrote: > >> I've been using CrashPlan for backup, of picture files not video files, >> but over 1 TB. The initial backup can take quite a while. It seems >> reliable. For a small fee you get unlimited space. But, they, and the >> others, only do single backups and advise customers to also backup their >> files elsewhere. In other words, they don't guarantee they won't lose >> the files. My solution is multiple external hard drives in two different >> locations. And you have to keep testing these and keep backing up to >> these -- even without much use, data on them will eventually get >> corrupted and the drives themselves will fail. So I transfer the files >> fresh from my computer every so often. If I couldn't fit all my files on >> my computer, as formerly, I would re-record them from one to the other. >> If you use Western Digital hard drives they have a program that runs >> extended tests on their hard drives to look for flaws, so I use that too. >> >> Fred Camper >> Chicago >> >> On 6/3/2014 7:55 PM, Chuck Kleinhans wrote: >>> Does anyone here use a cloud strorage service for backup for their >>> digital video files? Do you know which cloude storage services are the >>> most reliable? Any to avoid, that are unreliable? >>> >>> >>> >>> Chuck Kleinhans >>> chuck...@northwestern.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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