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06/07/2004 08:32:16 PM · #1 |
Yeah, I know that the media may not truly be archival quality depending on whether they used a metal layer or an ink layer.
HOWEVER, I just backed up 25 Gb of photos off one of my drives using my new DVD burner. Sweeeeeeeeet. It took about 10-15 minutes per CD (6 CD's total) but now that its done I have a little more free space back. Don't have to run out and pickup a new hard drive.
Anyway, if you have a bunch of images (I had 25 Gb from January through April 6th of this year) then those DVD's sure come in handy for storage purposes.
Kev
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06/07/2004 09:16:24 PM · #2 |
And I thought I was using a lot of space for photos, year to date I am at a little over 12 Gb.
I also archiving with a DVD burner, using Archive Creator to do the backups. This is a pretty neat program, it creates a html index of all your photos, puts a copy on the DVD and makes a master copy on your hard drive. This makes it pretty easy to find which DVD has the photo on it that you are looking for. With blank DVD costing so little I always burn all my photos to DVD before doing any editing.
For photos that would really hate to lose I make two copies onto DVD, at
a $1.20/DVD the cost to do this is low.
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06/07/2004 09:23:42 PM · #3 |
| This is why I never feel bad about taking a TON of photos and not deleting them. |
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06/07/2004 09:29:38 PM · #4 |
I have 40 GB of photographic material, none of which is disposable. For backups, I use harddrives. I have three 250MB Maxtor external Firewire drives. One is for daily backups (it is always connected to my computer) on a schedule. The other one is for weekly backups (hidden in a fireproof safe in my house) and the last one is for bi-weekly (or weekly, on weeks where I do a lot of work), and is kept in a bank deposit box.
Paranoid? Perhaps, but backups is not something to be taken lightly, and harddrives are infinitely more permanent than DVDs, IMO, and takes a lot less time than having to burn 10 DVDs.
h
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06/07/2004 09:34:14 PM · #5 |
Remember the basics of backups as well:
1) Data integrity (make sure your backups can be read. That means turn ON verification, and burn at slower speeds)
2) Reduncancy (you will want several sets of backups - never depend on a single set. Also, keep older sets of backups, in case file corruptions occur, you don't want to find that all your backups have the same errors)
3) Geographical location (If your house burns down, it doesn't help to have 3 sets of DVD backups in the same room on the same shelf)
4) Security (you don't want anyone stealing your raw files and selling them - use encryption)
5) Practicality (if taking backups takes up most of your time, you are doing something wrong)
My backup routine keeps all of the above happy, so it works for me. Whatever works for you - great, use it, but make damn sure the 5 points above are covered.
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