Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "michael3442"
<michael3442@...> wrote:
>
> Suggestions needed. I need to take a step up the ladder of managing my 
> digital files, having just found myself out of hard drive 
> space. 

Check out The DAM (digital asset management) book by Peter Krogh. It
offers a pretty thorough explanation of his system for managing
photos, backups, archiving and databases. You might not want to go as
far as he did, but there are many ideas he describes that are worthwhile.

I've been working with computers as a software developer for over 20
years now so I have a fair amount of knowledge about how these things
work. Using a database system for managing your photos can be a pain
to manage, but its really nice when you can type in a few keywords and
perform a search over 30,000 images to locate the ones of interest. As
far as archiving is concerned, the main thing to strive for is redundancy.

I use a combination of mirrored hard disks, DVD ROMs, and external
hard drives. Once my images come out of the camera, there are always
two copies of each one.

Derek