Backing Up
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- Atkinson
DVD or external HD as a long term infrequently accessed back-up for images / documents?
- kgvs720
External HD as well as online. IDK about DVDs or even blue-ray back up. The material in dvds can be short term back up imo.
- akrokdesign0
get your self a good ex. HD. if you want a one to last long, get one with a FAN and don't fall for the bull that they don't need one.
- RoyBoyII0
Network Storage
http://www.dlink.com/products/?p…
- Machuse0
is their something wrong with doing both.
DVD's are good in such that they will last forever as long as their not intentionally damaged. HD are more robust if they work, but random things can damage them - vibration, time, shock from movingDo whichever is convenient now, and do the other next month
- akrokdesign0
if you can afford it, you could have double back up on ex. HDs.
- might be cheaper then pay month by month for online backup.akrokdesign
- Atkinson0
Those dlinks look good. I guess they are good with mac / pc on the same network?
- akrokdesign0
i prefer firewire. 400 or 800. :-)
- ribit0
Whether a drive fails or not shouldn't affect your backup strategy that much. i.e. You still have your original data (right? otherwise you are just archiving, not backing up).
Having two backup drives means you can guard against losing your incremental versioning history as well, if one fails..
- albo0
External HD and DVD+R
- ********0
for long term infrequently accessed? hmm DVD ,
- ********0
could also be this:
- ribit0
A good mix might be hard drives at home/office, which means you can do like hourly backups using Time Machine or similar, so you have a really useful versioning system to jump back to before you screwed up that layout... Plus do DVDs... but take them offsite.. in case the building burns down, theft etc..
- Atkinson0
yeah I guess archiving is what I should have said - so, decent archiving systems?
- jpea0
I'd suggest 2 mirrored hard drives. I have one at the office and one at home. I backup to the one at the office every few days while I'm at work, then every so often bring my home drive to the office, backup from my office backup drive, then bring it home again.
- Or run the backup in both locations. You get to save more different versions that way.ribit
- chossy0
Hey atkinson, we use massive amounts of data in TV typically a project, get's close to one terrabyte, so we back up the projects onto an external HD FW800 then we also back that drive up onto a cheapy usb2 drive. Because we do not shoot on tape it is important for us to keep everything as there is no 'physical' if you will copy of the footage.
- Nairn0
Both, either or.
Redundancy and locational spread is key.
- formed0
External HDs daily, DVDs for archiving
Soon online too (Mozy, I think, unlimited storage)