Backing Up
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- chossy0
If you want to document the contents of your HD's or DVD's, I have used filemaker pro and it is very good quick and easy to use.
- linearch0
i have a 2 TB laCie RAID set up and use backblaze for online back up. took about 3 weeks to get everything online, but you are in control of how much bandwidth it uses (less during workday...all at night)...really can't say enough for backblaze....in fact i have an invite for mac, if someone wants it....and no, i don't work for them....
- Atkinson0
backblaze looking good, thanks
- harlequino0
I just heard somewhere on a news item about evolving media that DVDs have an average lifespan of 5 years before they start to break down and become unreadable, while good hardrives will go 10 years plus. Anyone else hear that?
- There goes the dvd collection.kgvs72
- But it was referring to DVDs you burn yourself to back stuff up. Not commercial DVDs.harlequino
- kgvs720
There's no perfect solution, but here's what I am planning to do. Any technology you use to store data that is ten years old should be transferred to new technology. Don't buy unknown brand of DVDs or CDs and protect them from extreme temperatures, etc
As far as HDs, I've tried different brands of hard drives and only had a problem once with a WD that was covered by warranty. Protect them from extreme temperatures as well
- kgvs720
If you browse through the photography archive of the library of congress, you will see that images that were scanned in the nineties are very small. They are actually going back and rescan again.
- acescence0
all of my old DVDs and CDs are slowly failing, nothing is forever
- BrokenHD0
DROBO.
http://www.drobo.com/
(and no i dont work for them,
but i am savin up for the 4TB jawn)