Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Julie, Have you been following this thread? This last post pretty much sums it up if you want to get serious about saving your digital files. Chris At 07:37 AM 8/4/2006, you wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049