Digital BW, The Print

I have maybe 150 photographs over a period of 35 years
that are worth holding on to,maybe 5 of those are not
from film.People who worry about millions of files or
negs have to learn how to edit.Who has a million great
photgraphs? No one.  I had a huge fire 25 years
ago,but my negs were spared.Do you think I would learn
my lesson? Nah,everything is still in one place.I back
stuff up,but its not for posterity,its so I don't have
to play with a file again.Francis Ford
--- Tom Andrews <tandrews@...> wrote:

> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> OK, I'll bite.  I backup my digital files to
> external hard drives.  I gave up on 
> CDs.  I currently have a LaCIE 250GB drive and a
> 120GB Maxtor.  And I am 
> about to buy more drives.  These are in addition to
> the two 120GB drives on 
> my Mac.  With 500 MB master 16bit scans of medium
> format film, backup to 
> CDs became a pain.  If my current scanning project
> really gets off the ground, 
> I will have to get a larger system for backup and
> base storage.  My studio is 
> in a separate building in the backyard.  I keep the
> external drives in the 
> house and carry them back and forth.  Of course if
> the fire was big enough, 
> both buildings would be gone.  So I should probably
> have additional drives 
> stored in a different location.  Cheers,
> 
> Tom Andrews
> http://www.wildlandart.com
> 
> 
> > The first post simply asked "how many REALLY do
> store digital copies
> > elsewhere?" ie how many people keep backups of
> their data at locations
> > different from where the originals are stored. 
> The question has nothing to
> > do with archiving but rather "backing up data".
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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