Only solution is multiple redundancy. Everything I can think of is susceptible
to damage.
At 11:47 AM 2/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Just a quickie:
I've just brought a fire safe for some of my more 'important' negatives...
and it let me a 'trollish' thread thought:
What happens to the digital
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From: Peter Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: digital crashes
Only solution is multiple redundancy. Everything I can think of is
susceptible
to damage
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Subject: Re: digital crashes
Let's see, some years back durning the eighty's depression while I was on
the road looking for work I left my negs and prints at my parents house
which burnt to the ground. I don't know those film
be a good
idea
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From: T Rittenhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: digital crashes
Let's see, some years back durning the eighty's depression while I was on
the road looking for work I left my negs
Just a quickie:
I've just brought a fire safe for some of my more 'important' negatives...
and it let me a 'trollish' thread thought:
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
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
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Oliver Raymond wrote:
I've just brought a fire safe for some of my more 'important' negatives...
and it let me a 'trollish' thread thought:
What happens to the digital shooter when their hard disk crashes? When their
CD gets scratched?
Hopefully they have back-ups.
Keep more than one copy, in more than one location, on more than one
medium. Storage media have a life span, so plan to re-copy most of your
files when necessary, or when a new medium becomes dominant.
chris
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I was
In a message dated Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:48:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, Oliver
Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just a quickie:
I've just brought a fire safe for some of my more 'important' negatives...
and it let me a 'trollish' thread thought:
What happens to the digital shooter when
Burnable CD's do not have a long life span either. Assuming in 30 years
time you have something to read them they would probably not work!
I have some from jus tfive years ago and they are unreadable now and
they have just been stored!!!
To me it is a more serious concern then the 'pixel wars'
And, IMHO one should also verify the data is properly recorded on the copies and
that the recovery process (software/hardware) works.
I see a half dozen or so major data/information losses each year where the backup
process is executed flawlessly -- or nearly so, but the data is lost due to
The world isn't limited to burnable CDs as a storage medium. You do
have to update at times, however.
Alan Abbott wrote:
Burnable CD's do not have a long life span either. Assuming in 30 years
time you have something to read them they would probably not work!
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Shel Belinkoff
2002 19:08
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: digital crashes
The world isn't limited to burnable CDs as a storage medium. You do
have to update at times, however.
Alan Abbott wrote:
Burnable CD's do not have a long life span either. Assuming in 30
years time you have something to read them
Otis Wright, Jr. wrote:
And, IMHO one should also verify the data is properly recorded on the
copies and that the recovery process (software/hardware) works.
I see a half dozen or so major data/information losses each year where
the backup process is executed flawlessly -- or nearly so,
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