on 26/6/03 1:54 pm, Bob Smith wrote:
> I file my disks pretty much like I filed film... by client and date. If > you put multiple client's work or multiple jobs onto one CD/DVD to save > space/media you end up creating a nightmare to keep track of all the > stuff and find it later. There's software that can do that well Hi Bob I use Filemaker Pro to catalogue all my archives and I find it very effective and easy to locate the cds. I've been looking into buying hard drives to store my archives as I'm spending too much (valuable) time burning to cd / dvd, possibly smaller drives of about 200GB so as to limit the risk of one going wrong. The obvious advantage to cds if one gets bust is I'm only loosing some and not all my archive, if I go to the lengths that others on this list do for archiving then I would have to ask for more payment from the client for this service, a sizeable amount they would probably not want to pay. On a more jovial Friday am note: I plan to back up everything, when I go on location I drive my own car followed by two other cars (as back up), in one of them is another photographer (in case I snuff it on route), each car also has a full set of identical kit in the boot. I aim to have two studios, as you never know if one may burn down on the night before a shoot. I hope to have three store rooms separated by several miles to store all my vat bills and receipts in triplicate, I don't want the vat inspector to get angry if I can't find the paperwork! Also I am hoping to have talks with a leading cloning company with the view to back up myself and my family three fold. Have a good weekend Take life easy Darrin Jenkins -- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
