Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Jay dedman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Thank you. This is just what I was about to ask. Apart from YouTube, I don't think we can take any of them for granted this year. None of their revenue models are obvious as far as I can see, and their data costs must be

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Freya
Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 11:23 PM Thank you. This is just what I was about to ask. Apart from YouTube, I don't think we can take any of them for granted this year. None

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Brook Hinton
I don't trust net backup. I don't trust anyone to stay in business long enough for that to be worth paying for. External drives are so cheap now. It's easy to move a small external drive around so it's almost never in the same place as your system. I try to set up my backup strategy so that my

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Rupert
Yeah, I'm a double back up guy. But at the moment that means two external hard drives. In England, power was pretty steady and reliable - hardly ever any power cuts - mostly underground power cables. Here on Vancouver Island, we get at least one power cut a month. Usually because

[videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Josh Paul
After the recent discussion about Revver, and the need to backup your videos elsewhere, I thought I'd mention Mozy (which now has a Mac client). I recently had a nasty drive failure (my Drobo and its backup both failed on the same day...with Seagate drives no less). For $4.95/month I now

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Rupert
Thank you. This is just what I was about to ask. Apart from YouTube, I don't think we can take any of them for granted this year. None of their revenue models are obvious as far as I can see, and their data costs must be big. Back up! On 31-Jan-09, at 2:53 PM, Josh Paul wrote: After the

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Kath O'Donnell
what about uploading to archive.org as a backup? don't they have good financial backing to keep it going in the future from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle Kahle and his wife Mary Austin created the Kahle/Austin

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Markus Sandy
On Jan 31, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: what about uploading to archive.org as a backup? don't they have good financial backing to keep it going in the future Great point! i recently asked andrew davis (papyromancer) to put together a new promo video for the archive he just