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Gordo wrote:
Remember that back up copies should be stored off site such as a bank vault. A set at work, a friend's, a relative, is usually sufficient. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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James Silverton wrote:
I wonder what is or are the best media for archiving? Have you tried randomly recalling some of the older images and checking for loss of quality? Long life "gold" CD's or DVD's. 100+ years in benign condtions. Another interesting thing is what sort of indexing system is best? There's the rub. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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James Silverton wrote:
David wrote on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:03:07 GMT: James Silverton wrote: [] I wonder what is or are the best media for archiving? Have you tried randomly recalling some of the older images and checking for loss of quality? Another interesting thing is what sort of indexing system is best? Yes, when I got the external HDs I had to recover almost all off the CDs and DVDs. All but one were readable, which might have been frustrating had I needed images of that DVD. One HD and one set of DVDs are off-site. Indexing for me is strictly year-month-day. I guess that you are saying that off-site storage, possibly multiply redundant, is the way to go. I wonder what are current estimates of life time of personally written DVDs? I don't *need* professionally to have a high probability of successful retrieval tho' I'd like it. Long life gold DVD's : 100+ years in benign conditions Ordinary DVD's: 5 years (~) in benign conditions As an amateur, I need more than a date to find an image. One nice thing about the Finder in Mac is that you can use it with a few keywords to find anything pretty quick. So if you name a folder (or even photo files) with the right keywords, you should be able to find it pretty damned quick. Also add the date in the folder name as a general mark. Couple the above with Time Machine and you can find anything very quickly. Hate to tout Mac, but for this sort of thing it is *** way *** ahead of Windows... -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Per Ray Fischer:
and comes home once every 1-2 weeks to get an update Which backup utility do you favor? -- PeteCresswell |
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Per James Silverton:
I wonder what is or are the best media for archiving? Have you tried randomly recalling some of the older images and checking for loss of quality? My feeling is that some sort of database-based backup utility is a must. That way, the DB's integrity checking guards against lost files. Otherwise one would never know if a file got lost. Dunno if DB backup utilities check for corruption though.... OTOH, there's something called a CRC check that, in my experience, won't let a file be copied if it fails. -- PeteCresswell |
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Per James Silverton:
As an amateur, I need more than a date to find an image. Give ThumbsPlus from www.cerious.com a test drive. I also file by dates, but give pix long meaningful names like 2006 12-25 Fred Judy Christmas ThumbsPlus will generate keyword index by parsing file and folder names. It will also retrieve photos based on searches for those keywords. That way something can be effectively filed under many categories. Too many other features (like indexing the contents of CDS and DVDS) to mention. There are probably other utils that do the same thing, but I've been using TP for over five years now and it *really* does the job. -- PeteCresswell |
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Per Keith nuttle:
In my computer files I have tried to maximize portability. Most of the photo indexing software that I am aware of puts the image data into a proprietary databases. With the one I use, that's only the case of one explicitly enters the info into it's DB. Like you, I prize portability. So, instead of entering data into the DB, I wrap it in the file names. Looooong file names.... -) But it does the job and my photo storage utility can disappear any time and I'll still have all my data. -- PeteCresswell |
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(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Ray Fischer: and comes home once every 1-2 weeks to get an update Which backup utility do you favor? I use SyncBack Freeware to synchronize all of my files. Using the synchronization software, my two computers are all ways nearly identical. By using the synchronizing the files rather that backing up files I do not loose files, as may happen with a backup. |
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