digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Oliver Raymond
Just a quickie: 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? Why? As a professional IT dude (apologies - i'm a MUCH better ph

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Have more than one copy. Keep the original in one place, perhaps off in a safe deposit box, and make two or three backup copies, keeping one on your hard disk, another on tape, and a third on a CD. Keep them all in different places. Oliver Raymond wrote: > What happens to the digital shooter w

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Chris Brogden
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

RE: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Malcolm Smith
> 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 > - I

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread ERNReed
In a message dated Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:48:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Oliver Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a quickie: > > 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 sho

RE: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Abbott
Burnable CD's do not have a long life span either. Assuming in 30 years time you have something to read them they would probably not work! I have some from jus tfive years ago and they are unreadable now and they have just been stored!!! To me it is a more serious concern then the 'pixel wars' Wha

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Otis Wright, Jr.
And, IMHO one should also verify the data is properly recorded on the copies and that the recovery process (software/hardware) works. I see a half dozen or so major data/information losses each year where the backup process is executed flawlessly -- or nearly so, but the data is lost due to inade

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Shel Belinkoff
The world isn't limited to burnable CDs as a storage medium. You do have to update at times, however. Alan Abbott wrote: > > Burnable CD's do not have a long life span either. Assuming in 30 years > time you have something to read them they would probably not work! -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[E

RE: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Abbott
ff Sent: 17 February 2002 19:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: digital crashes The world isn't limited to burnable CDs as a storage medium. You do have to update at times, however. Alan Abbott wrote: > > Burnable CD's do not have a long life span either. Assuming in 30 > yea

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-17 Thread pooky
Otis Wright, Jr. wrote: > And, IMHO one should also verify the data is properly recorded on the > copies and that the recovery process (software/hardware) works. > > I see a half dozen or so major data/information losses each year where > the backup process is executed flawlessly -- or nearly so

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Alling
Only solution is multiple redundancy. Everything I can think of is susceptible to damage. At 11:47 AM 2/17/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Just a quickie: > >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 dig

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-18 Thread T Rittenhouse
me. Ciao, Graywolf - Original Message - From: Peter Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:18 PM Subject: Re: digital crashes > Only solution is multiple redundancy. Everything

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-18 Thread Oliver Raymond
Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:08 PM Subject: Re: digital crashes > Let's see, some years back durning the eighty's depression while I was on > the road looking for work I left my negs and prints at my parents

Re: digital crashes

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Alling
in the basement would be a good >idea > >- Original Message - >From: "T Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:08 PM >Subject: Re: digital crashes > > > > Let's see, some yea