[studiorecorder] Re: all I can say is, thank you all, unfortunately!
- From: "Harry Brown" <wd8oep2464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:44:43 -0500
Hi Jayson,
You're right when it comes to a fire or theft, but not when it comes to water,
in my situation.
The thumb drive I have is made by Centon. Folks, this blows my mind, but it's a
water proof drive.
This drive is a thumb drive, and it's on my key chain which I take everywhere
with me, so, if there's a fire or flood, I'm out of that place, wherever I am
at, immediately, with my thumb drive in my pocket. I have 2 places where
everything is backed up, 1, on the thumb drive, and the other, on the computers
hard drive. Now when it comes to storing it at an off site location, I don't
have the money to pay a monthly fee to store it. That monthly fee would just be
another category in my budget, and the more categories I have in my buedget,
the less I can afford in all the other categories
I know there are things like Carbonite, but you know what? It takes a day and a
half, to upload stuff to Carbonite, and I don't have that kind of downtime
available.
Plus, Carbonite, automatically backs up everything you do on the computer, and
I don't want everything backed up, just the things I want backed up.
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: Jayson Smith
To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:32 AM
Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: all I can say is, thank you all, unfortunately!
Hi,
Obviously you want to get all your notebooks and tapes converted over to
digital format. I totally understand that, I'd want to do the same thing!
However, if what you really want to do is preserve that material in case of
a natural disaster, you need to keep in mind that, if you have them all at
home and your home catches fire or floods, the digital copies are going to
be pretty much as useless as your physical copies, so you'll still be left
with nothing, and all that hard work will have been for naught. In the case
of a hard drive crash, yes, ordinary backups in the same place are enough,
since you can just restore from one. But in the case of a natural disaster,
theft, etc. what you really need to insure your digital data lives on is an
off-site backup. Store a copy in another building. Bonus points if your
off-site backup is in a different part of the country.
As for throwing away the physical originals, obviously, be very sure you
won't need them in the future. If you have a hard drive crash, never backed
up, but you do still have the physical originals, even though it's a lot of
work, you can redo all those transfers to get the data back. If not, you
can't, and all that stuff is gone forever. Also, if you later discover a
problem with your transfers, for example, you had a stereo tape you
accidentally recorded in mono, having access to the originals would let you
fix those problems.
Just a few thoughts.
Jayson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Brown" <wd8oep2464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:12 PM
Subject: [studiorecorder] all I can say is, thank you all, unfortunately!
Hi all,
To Mary, Roger, Jayson, and Hamit, all I can say is, thank you all, so much!
Now, I will be able to get all my recordings transfered over to digital!
If you were all here, I'd take you out for a bite to eat!
This list is so helpful!
You all take care,
Harry
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