i have been working toward a strategy that i like and is reasonably convenient. i have been advocating removable hard drives for several years now as the most cost effective means. the cheapest is a drive drawer, but that means powering off the computer to change drives. i now use two Firewire drives as my main backup, one for each of my two hard drives inside the machine for a total of 200 GB of main and of backup. i'm also switching image formats, going to Genuine Fractals after i have worked with them to my satisfaction in Photoshop. that offers a 4:1 savings in disk space. for offsite backup, my next big step, i am going to DVD media. DVD-R or +R for archival and DVD-RW or +RW for short term project storage.the DVDs will be arranged by subject/project, while the Firewire hard drives are for scheduled backups. i haven't decided how to manage my slides and negatives yet. making duplicates is out of the question.
hard drive backups to other hard drives is easy because i replace them every time there is a significant technology change. i know i will have to copy the DVDs as media changes and get obsolete, but that is why i want really large media to copy. less steps. tapes are too expensive unless you do massive amounts of backup and need many generations of them. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 15:47 Subject: Back from the Grave > My old backup strategy was > to copy stuff onto another drive, figuring that if there was a failure it > would just be a drive failure - never dreamed that the whole PC could be > wiped out in one fell swoop like that. > > Inching towards the *ist-D, I realize that it will be imperative to > immediately store the images on some sort of removable image - probably a > couple copie sof it at that. I have many boxes of slides and sleeves of > negatives sitting here - loosing the stuff on the PC is a major pain, but > it is all recreatable. Loosing actual images - now that would be bad!
