Hi Marnie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And, although, this has been discussed some before, it made me > think of a poll -- I am curious how many others are negligent > like me -- so... I'm in the process of implementing a more robust backup mechanism. More robust, in fact, than anything I ever have done for the (one of a kind) negatives of my film shooting days. I consider this (backup) one of the advantages of the digital workflow. At the moment, I do things like this: 1) Shoot an event or something onto CF/SD cards and an image tank as necessary in "raw" format (PEF) 2) Transfer all of those shots onto my laptop computer 3) Make copies of the shots from the laptop computer onto both my main desktop computer and the hard drive of my network server 4) Archive the raw shots on the network server to an external hard drive as a backup The step that's missing right now is make DVDs (or something) of the PEFs and get those media off site. As one of my managers years ago said, "If it isn't off-site, it's not a backup". My current procedures are good enough to survive a local hardware failure. But they're nowhere near good enough to survive a natural or man-made disaster. I'd love to have been able to easily and (effectively) costlessly make backup copies of the negative strips I shot on film. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
