On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:54 AM, AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/7/23 David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> My current back up includes transfering files to one external HD, >> Maxtor, and to either a CD or DVD depending on the files sizes. > >> I'm thinking the CD's and DVD's may go, and add another external and >> back up on both. > > Don't think it would hurt to try that road. HDs have at least as long > expected lifetime as to your average CDs and DVDs. The real downside > of any HD is that if you melt it, you melt the equivalent of many > DVDs... OTOH, maintenance is simpler with HDs for the same reason; > fewer items to manage. > > My own strategy is the Pooh variety; doing both... :-) - but not all > of it, all of the time. > > I have one USB attached HD for day-to-day incremental backup. Then I > have a network-attached HD located in a different part of the house to > do backup after each significant photographic event or quarterly, > whichever comes first. Then I have a few days of the week between > Christmas and New Year set off for burning DVDs of the whole vintage, > which is then stored in my parents' house. My oldest DVDs from 2003 > will be renewed this year, and I'm a little bit anxious about their > readability...
Hummm, maybe i should look at my older CD's and make sure of that to. > > Jostein > >> I rarely travel to farms or homes that want to see photos, but with >> the small size of the HD's these days, carrying one or two should not >> be a problem. > > Do you bring your own computer to show the images? Rarely. No more on site showing, but if i go to a farm and do a passport shoot, i'll bring the ibook so we can pick the best one on site, and i can stop at a lab on the way home and get them printed in 4x6 for the passports. Dave > > Jostein > > -- > 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. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- 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.
