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Re: [Digital BW] Archiving Digital Photos

2007-08-14 by Vinyl Graphics of Taft

>Unless the data you need to backup are not a lot, CD/DVD is just not
> very scalable.
> 
> You mean you don't have a date-inverse backup paradigm _and_ you 
> aren't making incremental backups?
> 
> Now that, regardless of the backup destination, is a disaster that 
> _will_ happen.
> 
> 
> -=-Dennis


Well, I use two 500GB external drives that I bought from Dell for
under $170 each.  You can also buy a Terrabyte Hard Drive for under
$300. I also take all my prized CR2 photos and convert to Adobe DNG
files, then archive them on Gold DVD's.  I bought a cheap ($500) gun
safe with a one hour burn limit to store all my important items in the
shop.  If it catches fire, my data will still be OK, as the safe is
fire-proof and water tight.

Uncle Dannie

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