Have more than one copy.  Keep the original in one place, perhaps off in
a safe deposit box, and make two or three backup copies, keeping one on
your hard disk, another on tape, and a third on a CD.  Keep them all in
different places.

Oliver Raymond wrote:

> What happens to the digital shooter when their hard disk crashes? When their
> CD gets scratched?
> 
> Why? As a professional IT dude (apologies - i'm a MUCH better photographer),
> I would have thought a big old DLT 70GB tape would do.. (i do a little
> scanning once in a while) until I lost the tape drive, and several tapes due
> to physical errors.... Once someone can properly explain a SAFE solution to
> archiving, i'll pick up a d1, and maybe even use it over my 67ii :)

-- 
Shel Belinkoff
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