> > From: AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/04/03 Thu AM 08:19:17 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Reliabilty of CD storage - was: Lightroom 2.0 beta > > At the agency where I work, we received roughly a TB of documentation > last year. Loads of DVDs and CDs. > > We've had important documentation on DVDs corrupted in less than 2 > years, and there's far much more money involved with these documents > than with any photo. > > So we regard discs as transport media only. > > Privately, I tend to think the same way. I use DVDs as a second-stage > disaster recovery backup, and make sure to keep the DVD unit used to > produce the backup together with the discs. I don't wish to run the > risk of subtle incompatibilities between different devices. And yes, > I've seen that happen at work. I have even seen differences among DVD > players/recorders from the same mfg. and same production run (similar > serial numbers). > > Backup is, at its basest, a continuous and iterative process. > > Jostein
I thought "digital" was supposed to make photography easy and cheap? };-) > > 2008/4/3, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ralf R. Radermacher" > > Subject: Reliabilty of CD storage - was: Lightroom 2.0 beta > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Most of my film scans are stored on CDs, and they still read well. > > > > Keep your fingers crossed. > > > > I've had serious trouble with a whole bunch of CDRs containing my > > back-ups of film scan data. They were stored in specially made CD paper > > jackets, the kind commonly used in books or commercial software > > packages. These jackets, bought from a local CD production company, had > > self-adhesive flaps and it appears something evaporating from this > > adhesive has damaged the CDs in the jacket to the point that they've > > become unredable. All this after about four years of storage. There was > > a distinct brownish colouring of the CDs in the section whch had been > > next to the flap. > > > > > > I've had a few CDs go bad, stored in plastic jewel cases. I've always tried > > to buy name brand > > ones such as Verbatim or Fuji, and I have always verified the data after > > the write. It's just > > the luck of the draw, I guess. > > I'm pretty close to buying an external RAID of some sort, and I will > > probably transfer as many > > of my files over to it from the CDs as is practical. > > > > William Robb > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
