Digital BW, The Print

As we a mass even more digital data, the chances get greater that we'll have
an issue at some point. Markers are a source of problems for CD and DVDs.
Out gassing of the sleeve. bad disk. 

 

Who's running the show? the computer guys or the artist? Yes it's a PIA. Do
you really have time to open all those backed up folders just to check it?
Do you trust the back up program? How many people make a mirror back up and
then don't use it to make sure it worked? 

 

 

 

Eric Neilsen

Eric Neilsen Photography

4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9

Dallas, TX 75226

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Smallfield
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 6:52 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] CD/DVD failure?

 

  

I've had CD/DVD failures, too. But I've also had hard drive failures that
have combined with the failure of the backup program and resulted in
unrecoverable data loss.

I use Mirror Folder for backing up (it's rather complex) and twice I've had
unreadable data on the source disc - and then found that the mirror disc has
also lost not just the corrupted data, but folders of tens of GBs of data,
for no apparent reason. (It was set to backup any deleted files and keep the
backups for two weeks but is now set to keep such files for three months, as
I now know that I might not see an error within two weeks. And I'm no longer
letting it delete unmatched files.) 

So ... although hard drives are easier and cheaper, even with hard drives,
one has to be very careful about the ramifications of the options chosen in
the backup software, and have more than one backup copy. And check the
program is working as intended, regularly - something it is easy to fail to
find time to do.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated from me, too.

thanks,
Richard

Richard Smallfield Photography 





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