Digital BW, The Print

That's what I do.  My scanned images are over a TB!

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Denton Taylor <denton@...> wrote:

>
>
> I find it difficult to back up offline as a amateur photg... I have
> 30k photos, about 230 gb. That's not including anything else!
>
> What I do is rotate between three 1.5tb hard drives. One goes offsite
> every week, and the other two stay home. I rotate between them so I
> always have two complete backups on each harddrive, and one is always
> offsite.
>
>
> At 09:26 AM 2/5/2010 -0800, Dana Myers wrote:
> >On 2/5/2010 6:33 AM, Richard Sintchak wrote:
> > > Just curious. How is the (and the time it takes) better than an
> additional
> > > external HD that you backup everything to once a month or every few
> weeks
> > > and store at your work, or parents, or somewhere else? I just got a
> Seagate
> > > 1.5TB Ext HD for $99.
> >
> >Several reasons.
> >
> >1) If your house is destroyed (burns down, earthquake, etc.), your
> >remote back-up is likely to remain intact.
> >
> >2) A single external disk drive has reliability limits, you may find
> >it has read errors when you really need to restore from it. A
> >good backup service stores data on redundant arrays of disks (either
> >some form of RAID or multiple shadow copies, or both). Further,
> >as disk errors are detected in these redundant arrays, the disks
> >are replaced without loss of data or availability.
> >
> >3) Over time, you want to migrate your archive from one kind of
> >storage to another to avoid the 8-track syndrome (lots of tapes
> >but your player died and you can't replace it). A good back-up
> >service is accessed via the network and can migrate actual
> >storage as necessary, and the network interface is likely to
> >remain useful for a very long time.
> >
> >It's far better to back-up to an external disk than no back-up
> >at all, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denton Taylor
> photogalleries at
> www.pbase.com/dentontay/
> www.dentontaylor.com
>
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>



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Richard S.
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