Thanks for reminding me of RAID Matt. I shall proceed to set up a
mirror for my main (start-up) HDD immediately. Sticking to culluloid
also helps in that your originals are in non-electronic form.
Chris
On 25 Jun 2004, at 23:04, Matt Boland wrote:
>
>
> Hardrives are getting cheaper but you would have to keep them in a RAID
> array and regularly retire out old drives.
>
> DAT tapes are great for large shorter term backup but I wouldn't want
> my
> photos on there for longer than maybe 5 years. (Not that that's how the
> tape should be used)
>
> So I guess for now it's the the HDD (RAIDED would be good) backed to
> DAT
> weekly. That's do-able (is that a word?) for regular data. It doesn't
> grow at a rate of knots like digital photography can.
> For now I'm sticking to my celluloid guns...
>
>
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