> > I thought "digital" was supposed to make photography easy and cheap? };-) > If we stored negatives the way we are supposed to film would be a lot more expensive too. (I'll bet the "archival" film sheets are eating away at my negatives even now).
mike wilson wrote: >> From: AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2008/04/03 Thu AM 08:19:17 GMT >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: Reliabilty of CD storage - was: Lightroom 2.0 beta >> >> At the agency where I work, we received roughly a TB of documentation >> last year. Loads of DVDs and CDs. >> >> We've had important documentation on DVDs corrupted in less than 2 >> years, and there's far much more money involved with these documents >> than with any photo. >> >> So we regard discs as transport media only. >> >> Privately, I tend to think the same way. I use DVDs as a second-stage >> disaster recovery backup, and make sure to keep the DVD unit used to >> produce the backup together with the discs. I don't wish to run the >> risk of subtle incompatibilities between different devices. And yes, >> I've seen that happen at work. I have even seen differences among DVD >> players/recorders from the same mfg. and same production run (similar >> serial numbers). >> >> Backup is, at its basest, a continuous and iterative process. >> >> Jostein >> > > I thought "digital" was supposed to make photography easy and cheap? };-) > > >> 2008/4/3, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Ralf R. Radermacher" >>> Subject: Reliabilty of CD storage - was: Lightroom 2.0 beta >>> >>> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Most of my film scans are stored on CDs, and they still read well. >>>> >>> Keep your fingers crossed. >>> >>> I've had serious trouble with a whole bunch of CDRs containing my >>> back-ups of film scan data. They were stored in specially made CD paper >>> jackets, the kind commonly used in books or commercial software >>> packages. These jackets, bought from a local CD production company, had >>> self-adhesive flaps and it appears something evaporating from this >>> adhesive has damaged the CDs in the jacket to the point that they've >>> become unredable. All this after about four years of storage. There was >>> a distinct brownish colouring of the CDs in the section whch had been >>> next to the flap. >>> >>> >>> I've had a few CDs go bad, stored in plastic jewel cases. I've always tried >>> to buy name brand >>> ones such as Verbatim or Fuji, and I have always verified the data after >>> the write. It's just >>> the luck of the draw, I guess. >>> I'm pretty close to buying an external RAID of some sort, and I will >>> probably transfer as many >>> of my files over to it from the CDs as is practical. >>> >>> William Robb >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >> -- >> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ >> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
