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! > --- > > David Young, > Logan Lake, CANADA > > Limited Edition Prints at: www.furnfeather.net > Personal Web-site at: www.main.furnfeather.net > > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/