Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, So have I - and. I change hard drives every 2-3 years, in a phased manner, as well. The cost of data storage is really low nowadays as well, the icing on the cake! Cheers Jayanand On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Hi Jayanand, > > Back in the early 1990s, I bought a new Compaq computer complete with a > proprietary tape backup system, and used it with confidence. Then, when I > upgraded computers again, I found that the tape system was no longer > supported. Since then, I've relied on bare hard drives. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 5/12/2018 11:45 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > >> Jim, >> i, too, have only physical files and backups - altogether 5 sets of RAW + >> Prints in TIFF form. I need 4TB for each, so that is 8 TB per set for four >> sets, and an additional one on a NAS. >> >> I took Brian's meaning was being locked into a proprietary system, i.e. >> not >> being able to access the processed files if you exit their software. This >> can be a real problem - when I ran a business, we used to store our >> backups >> on HP tape drives in the early 1990s. For some reason, the Income Tax >> authorities wanted some details after 6 years. We found to our shock that >> neither did HP have a drive, but they had changed the software as well, so >> they could not help a client who had been using their cutting edge >> technology 6 years earlier! >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >>> >>> I thought I was the only one who worked that way. I suspect that LR is >>> busily stashing images away in a cloud, though I don't use it as an >>> indexing system, but all of my RAW images as well as my selected finished >>> images are on my hard drives and archive drives. >>> >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> >>> On 5/12/2018 11:06 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote: >>> >>> I use the Adobe CC apps, and none of my work is stored in a proprietary >>>> system. Everything is in my computer and my archive hard drives. You >>>> don?t >>>> have to store images on Adobe?s cloud. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >