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DC wrote:
I'm pretty close to buying a digital camera. One concern I have is the long term storage of the images. I have serious questions about the reliability of optical media (based on reported issues with CDRs not being readable after a few years). Hard disks fail and I don't consider tape a reliable storage medium for the long term. Perhaps because I work in IT support I'm overly cynical about the hardware involved. Same here. One tip I would give, always keep more than one copy of data (or images) you can't afford to lose. A tip that Pro Norbert Wu gave me awhile back for PC-based backups was to look into USB/FW external peripheral that uses hard drives on removable sleds: you need one reader box, 3 sleds, and 3 160GB ATA drives, and if you shop around and DIY the assembly, its under $500. -hh |
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George Kerby wrote:
On 1/2/05 11:52 AM, in article , "bob" wrote: wrote in news:1103725728.795292.265670 : So what would you guys say is the best file type, media format and media type to use if I want them to be easily accessible for decades? Archival prints. (With Photoshop .psd, .tif, and .jpg on harddrive as backup). Bob AND a CD or DVD backup of that drive which WILL eventually fail... Yes, so? What backup method won't eventually fail? HDs fail, CDs fail, tape fails, even paper fails. So, you don't just backup and forget. You backup and test the backup media. Every so often, you rebackup. Clyde |
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George Kerby wrote:
On 1/2/05 11:52 AM, in article , "bob" wrote: wrote in news:1103725728.795292.265670 : So what would you guys say is the best file type, media format and media type to use if I want them to be easily accessible for decades? Archival prints. (With Photoshop .psd, .tif, and .jpg on harddrive as backup). Bob AND a CD or DVD backup of that drive which WILL eventually fail... Yes, so? What backup method won't eventually fail? HDs fail, CDs fail, tape fails, even paper fails. So, you don't just backup and forget. You backup and test the backup media. Every so often, you rebackup. Clyde |
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