On: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 Andy Johnstone wrote:- > I agree that backing up to hard drive has to be the answer.
Along with backing up on CD-ROM and/or tape. Twice - at least. > 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). If it doesn't fail after a week, it will more than likely run until it hits its minimum expected life-span. > 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? No! Think of the time and energy doing those multi-pass scans...... > 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). Burning to CD is a grrrr. Get yourself a x52 speed writer, its all over in two minutes. > 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. Along with an archive of your negs as well, I hope. > 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? You can drag and drop for sure, but programs like Retrospect allow you to make automatic incremental backups to a server or tape at the of the working day. Very useful if you have multiple hard-drives on a network in a big studio, as it leaves out human error. William Curwen =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
