Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phew! Reading this makes me want to go back to using film! ;-) Simon. On 7/21/06, Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote: > > Beyond my own needs I've been involved in helping others set up > backup/archive systems. > > My main machine, a Mac, has a 120Gb startup drive and two fast 80Gb > drives striped RAID drives for Photoshop's use for swap files (and > some very large interim files) and firewire drives for image storage. > At present 300Gb drives are in the sweet spot for capacity/dollar > here, so that is what I get. I put them into inexpensive third party > (firewire) enclosures, and everything works fine. I generally use > Seagate drives, as I've had a lot more failed Western Digital and > Maxtor on a percentage basis, and others are generally not cost > effective here. This is based on about 100 drives over the past 3 > years. Not a huge number, but good enough for me. > > I have used and have experience with about 6 LaCie drives/enclosures. > The mechanisms are mostly Western Digital (see above) and three of > the enclosures have had failures of one sort or another, a far higher > percentage than the other enclosures. I like the look of the LaCie, > but not the reliability. > > I generally have one current drive with images on line. I back that > up regularly to a similarly sized second drive (I use a utility > called DejaVu, but there are others that work - NOT Silverkeeper > which tends to drop files). The file structure is identical on all > drives except for the jpegs and scans (see below). The second drive > only gets fired up to do a backup. A third drive also gets a backup, > but this one is used via Adobe's DNG converter (I shoot almost > exclusively RAW) so that I have another format. I also put the jpegs, > scans etc in another folder. When a set of three drives is full, I > bring one to my wife's office and keep the DNG drive in a fireproof > safe. The third drive gets used when I need photos from that drive, > and it gets kept connected (but powered down) at my computer. My > catalog resides on my main drive, and is done with iView. My main > drive also gets backed up automatically daily, and manually to > another drive once a week. The RAID setup doesn't get backed up. > > I've had too many experiences with unreadable CD's and DVD's to trust > them for long term storage. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >