> Two years ago, this system would not have worked. Hard drives were far too > expensive. But if you look around today, the prices have dropped to > unbelievable levels
I agree that backing up to hard drive has to be the answer. I am worried about disc failure though. I am currently using a 120 GB lacie as a backup drive, but it is my second drive and it worries me as the first one failed (fortunately minutes after I bought it). As a double back up I am currently saving all my RAW scans (same file names as the final image files, but since they are 16-bit they take up[ a bunch of space. And I am considering deleting them,. Wise move? I burn all my images to CD for my agencies and hence I have an off site copy of all my archives at the agencies, plus the cd's (which get returned to me). Buring to CD is a grrrr. Digital archiving t is of course less pressing for me as I am still scanning film. But as I move over to dig capture having a standard and failsafe storage systeem for my archive becomes more crucial. Would be nice to get a 500mb firewire drive in the studio though. Any recommendations? Also I have never used back up software like retrospect (though I seem to remember having a copy once as part of a powerbook package. I have always dragged and dropped and left the computer whirring. Are these back up programmes better than doing this? If so why? Andy -- Andy Johnstone Photography Member of the Association of Photographers (UK) =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
