[LRflex] Re: Breathing easier, now.

  • From: Christopher Birchenhall <crbirchenhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:00:46 +0000

David

Your experience is scary. At best I rely on two copies (HD and DVD). I
see no easy solution.

Here is a job for Google etc - an online backup system with
"life"-time retrieval?

Chris B

2009/2/4 David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Fellow Flexers:
>
> Recently we had a discussion, here, about digital workflow, and making
> backups.
>
> Today, a DVD burned in 2005 proved unreadable.  I went to the backup disc
> and it too was unreadable.
>
> I then went to my archived DVD and although it proved difficult to read, it
> was readable after about 2 to 3 minutes of hunting, by the drive.
>
> I have now copied it to HD and from there back to 3 new DVDs.  All read-back
> perfectly.
>
> In this case, I do not suspect any problem with the Fuji discs, but rather
> with the older, now gone, DVD writer, which I had previously used.
>
> Still, it proves the need for good backup procedures, with multiple backups.
>  If you have only one  backup, such an outboard HD, you might well be "in
> the glue", should that fail.
>
> I hope none of you ever suffer such a fate, with your photos.
>
> Cheers!
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>
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