On 26/6/03 2:53 pm, "Andy Johnstone" wrote: > I am worried about disc failure though.
Any method can fail, at any time. That's why you must always have more than one copy. Ideally three. The original, the copy and the off-site copy. > 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? Hard drives space is cheap right now. I'd save them. How much effort would it be to recreate them, compared to how much cost for the hard drive? When it comes to back-up costing. Just say to yourself, on the day your machine crashes, beyond repair. What is the amount you would pay to recover it back to it original state. My own estimation is around �1500-�2000. My machine contains the last 3 years of my work. > 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. You already have one copy then. Off-site. At least of the final image, not necessarily the original, or working versions. > 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. Again you have the film original, but that's easily destroyed. Fire/Flood/Accident. > Would be nice to get a 500mb firewire drive in the studio though. Any > recommendations? How many would you like? There is only one on the market AFAIK. LaCie BigDisk. But the old 400 firewire version. For backup its ample fast enough. Having the 800 version would not be a great advantage. Plus you save �150. > 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? Oh dear :-( Back up software, compresses for one, but most importantly backs up incrementally. This means - it saves image1 today. Tomorrow it doesn't save it, because it didn't change. However the next day I alter the image1. So it get backed up again. Therefore at the end of the week, you will have multiple versions of the same file, at different stages of its saving process. Enabling you to restore an earlier version if that is required. You never need to check which versions you are backing up, the software checks for you. Backing up by drag and drop is simply prehistoric in comparison. Regards Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
