Digital BW, The Print

Thank you Roger, an interesting and very informative post. 

Now we have 1 (actually 1 and a half . . . I do save off-site, but I am sloppy about it), who do really save stuff elsewhere.

The numbers are astounding!!!!!!
  From: Roger Howard 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 7:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Canon for Digital B&W from color



  On Nov 22, 2004, at 4:03 PM, bhhc wrote:

  >
  > I would be really interested in knowing how many REALLY do store 
  > digital copies elsewhere. Virtually every post I read from digi-geeks 
  > goes on and on about how cheap it is . . . which would lead one to 
  > suspect that having a "safe" storage site elsewhere, which would incur 
  > additional costs, is contrary to the digi-geek mantra of "we spend no 
  > money, we spend no money".

  I have 120GB of photography (and growing at a ridiculous clip), and 
  about 30GB of other critical current data (I also have a few hundred GB 
  archived of old projects); it's all replicated in full to one other 
  location on an ongoing basis (rsync rules) and regularly incrementally 
  "archived" to DVD-R which are also stored off site (at my office, which 
  is in arguably one of the most environmentally secure facilities in 
  Southern California at least). My current bandwidth isn't going to 
  sustain me much longer - my photography is growing faster than my 
  bandwidth -- at which point I'll likely just start shuttling 400GB 
  Firewire drives around (there's an old maxim about not underestimating 
  the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes! same goes for 
  a Beetle full of Firewire drives).

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