graywolf wrote:
See my other reply. You make new backup copies as new media becomes
available. That is the reason for using a fileserver as your main
repository. Such a server is not necessarily that expensive. And older
computer that you may already have around the house, an IDE raid
controller, a couple of big hard drives, and a UPS. Network it to your
workstations and/or laptops and you are in business. The images are
there online and reasonably safe, at least far safer than if you just
have them on a USB drive. If new backup media becomes available you just
back up the whole image file to that and toss the DVD's. In the unlikely
case of both mirrored drives crashing at the same time you restore the
system from the backup media.
Anyone who thinks there is a once and forever computer archive scheme
out there is deluding themselves.
what he said. I recently switched my backups from CDs to DVDs. Easy
enough because EVERY image I have is mirrored on hard drives on my linux
box and always available for viewing/editing/archiving. When a new
removable media becomes available, my backups will switch from DVDs to
whatever that is.
In a past life I was the backup and SAN administrator for a datacenter.
I always liked the toys of the trade. I really wish I could have a
massive multi-terabyte array and a tape library to back it up.
--
Christian
http://photography.skofteland.net
