On Apr 4, 2008, at 8:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have storage paranoia like you do. Probably the best thing to do > is, back > up to CDs/DVDs, two copies, keep on hard disk. Then go in in one > to three > months or so and see if one can get photos off CDs/DVDs.
In the past week or two I've been working on a largish project which required that I go back through exposures made on film and scanned in the late 1990s along with all my digital capture work from 2002 and up. I only have 2005 and later digital files on my working drives. I opened up my hard drive (and about three dozen of CDs made up to 13 years ago) archives and have reviewed 76,000 photos with no errors at all, selected out about 3600 of them for further grading and use, copied them to my current workspace, etc. They've loaded and many have been edited in Lightroom since. I'd say the file archiving and validation system I've built is working rather nicely, and the media is proving to be robust enough for my needs. > Usually, for me, if a disc is bad, it is bad from the beginning. That's why you should *always* run a verification/validation pass immediately after burning a CD/DVD, and make at least two independently from the original working set of files. I'm sorry but this is not rocket science. It's pretty easy to achieve highly reliable archives with today's systems, with a minimum of fuss and "computer savvy". Good quality equipment, well designed archiving policy and proper procedures do the job. Godfrey -- 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.
