On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Oliver Raymond wrote: > I've just brought a fire safe for some of my more 'important' negatives... > and it let me a 'trollish' thread thought: > > What happens to the digital shooter when their hard disk crashes? When their > CD gets scratched?
Hopefully they have back-ups. > Why? As a professional IT dude (apologies - i'm a MUCH better > photographer), I would have thought a big old DLT 70GB tape would do.. > (i do a little scanning once in a while) until I lost the tape drive, > and several tapes due to physical errors.... Once someone can properly > explain a SAFE solution to archiving, i'll pick up a d1, and maybe > even use it over my 67ii :) Keep more than one copy, in more than one location, on more than one medium. Storage media have a life span, so plan to re-copy most of your files when necessary, or when a new medium becomes dominant. chris - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
