Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by pdesmidt tds.net
I m not a fan of using Raid arrays as part of a back up. Raid controllers can fail. I know this, as I ve had it happen. I do have more than one drive in my
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Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-12 by jacquescrn
I don t know exactly with what kind of burner your wife did the DVD s but... with an exoensive trip like the one she had, I would go for CD first. Gold
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by mrjimbo
Ken, I think your off on the wrong foot with this.. I certainly agree that the word Raid does not equal back up.. But Raid setups or systems as part of a back
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-12 by kwalsh74
I haven t because I ve refused to use them for any long term data retention. I know they are a disaster waiting to happen for that application. My wife has
Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by kwalsh74
Just to add a little more to the discussion, remember a key point: RAID is not a backup!!!! RAID protects against just one thing, hard drive failure. That is
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by mrjimbo
Paul, Your thoughts on this are practicle and make sense. Film still is one of if not the best acrhive materials when properly executed. B&W film is tooted at
Re: proper care and storage of CD/DVDs
2011-02-12 by mrgs1001
CD/DVD care, handling and storage guide from Institute of Standards and Technology: http://ow.ly/3VbgR CD/DVD s are not used for storage by back up companies
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Smooth Un-coated paper
2011-02-12 by Ernst Dinkla
Paul, I went through my archive of 300 graphic art papers to test my memory. They are not all in the same category, not all cotton, not all unsized, natural
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by Dana Myers
... The need for RAID 1? It s to insulate the user against single-drive-failure catastrophes. Dana [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by Dana Myers
... It s a crapping thinko. Ignore the word RAID 0 and note the word mirror and the description of a RAID 1/mirror. Mirror is what I meant, and RAID 1 is
Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by Barrett Benton
... You ve probably been raked over the coals enough times before I got to read this, but I ll reiterate: RAID 0 is a Really Bad Idea if one is relying heavily
Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-12 by Paul
... That s the direction I m leaning also -- letter size film images that can be sleeved and put into a standard bank box. Carbon on cotton may be the most
Re: [Digital BW] Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-12 by Mark Savoia
The Walt Disney method? He can keep on eye on them. Mark http://www.stillrivereditions.com
[Digital BW] Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-12 by Mark
... Don t throw the originals out. Keep them and freeze them! Better technologies will extract more information from them as time goes by. To stop film
Re: [Digital BW] Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-11 by mrjimbo
Arlene, Wow.. That s a pretty hard line approach.. I m not suggesting that you stop what your doing but I would just like to toss a few considerations out
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-11 by arlenelove3@aol.com
I m storing my images on archival gold discs - (supposedly good for 300 years) and also on hard drives. The old slides are useless, even though they were kept
Re: Smooth Un-coated paper
2011-02-11 by Paul
... Thanks, it may be worth a try even though it s not a watercolor paper. It s interesting that one article on pen drawings specified Whatman s or Strathmore.
Re: [Digital BW] Smooth Un-coated paper
2011-02-11 by Paul
... Thanks. I didn t know Whatman s importance until I Googled it. They may be out of business. See http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/paper2l.html (Handprint
Re: Smooth Un-coated paper
2011-02-11 by Mantinieri
Hello Paul, in my experience, I have never found another watercolor paper, 100% cotton, that comes close to Arches HP in terms of smoothness and D-Max. Another
Re: [Digital BW] Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-11 by mrjimbo
Barrett, That is very true about the drives today.. I have attempted to do a fair amount of homework in these areas as for me I ve chosen to use hard drives as
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-11 by Barrett Benton
From a freelance IT tech s perspective: - Hard disks simply don t last as long as they used to. This may be a byproduct of both vastly-increased capacity of
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-11 by jacquescrn
Actually there is still the Delkin products; they are making CD s and DVD s with gold and a special anti-scratch armour that must be of some help. I bought a
Re: [Digital BW] CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-11 by Brubaker family
The most permanent CD/DVDs are gold and use a special long lasting dye (I can t remember the chemical name right now). All CD/DVDs have a dye layer which
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-11 by mrjimbo
Raid 10 works quite well .. a good option.. j ... From: Paul Grant To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:21 PM
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by jacquescrn
If your using hard drives as backups (like I do plus gold cd s) don t forget that they have to be turned on, let s say each six months at least. I ve had hard
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by ben
Another practice I have been doing over the last ten years, is to start new file hard drives for each year. I never use large ones; the all the eggs in one
Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by lgrrrb@bellsouth.net
My safest backups are clean negatives stored in the bank safety deposit box. Next, a 1TB external hard drive stored in the bank. Then, another 1TB external
Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Michael
When making your initial online backup, you can greatly reduce the time required if you adjust your computer s power settings so it does not go into Slumber
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Mike Finley
... Mirroring (RAID 1) well implemented has read performance similar to RAID 0 (alternate sectors read from each drive). Poorly implemented it will have the
RE: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Paul Grant
For what it is worth I prefer the Raid 10. It provides less capacity than the Raid 5 but the Write performance is so much faster. I use the Raid 10 as my
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by mrjimbo
Hey Mark, A lot of places limit bandwidth.. At some point every one will be band width impaired to some degree and or pay for what your using.. All the
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by mrjimbo
Just a tad more info for Raid.. For most folk here I would think that mirroring between two drives side isthe way to go.. It is the slowest preformer both
Re: [Digital BW] Smooth Un-coated paper
2011-02-10 by Jon
From my days of running an Iris printer, I discovered Whatman s Hot Press, a very smooth and slightly soft watercolor paper. It works quite well with the
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Dana Myers
... Absolutely, Comcast enforces a strict threshold of 250GB total usage per month. You can find information on this www.comcast.com somewhere. Yes, 250GB
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Mark Savoia
Really, they limit your total bandwidth use per day/week/month/year? That sucks. I have Comcast here and upload and download hundreds of MB every month and
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Dana Myers
... This is good; one consideration is that some internet providers have total usage caps, such as Comcast and 250GB total. An initial upload could
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Mark Savoia
They will rent you a HD for the initial upload, it gets shipped back to them to start. Mark http://www.stillrivereditions.com
Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by kwalsh74
I am presently using CrashPlan which is very cost effective and efficient. The initial backup can take a painfully long time due to the size involved if you
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Dana Myers
... Doh. Of course I meant *RAID 1* mirror. It s an off-by-one error :-) (I knew what I *meant* to say) Mike is completely correct - RAID 0 striping is
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Mike Finley
... NO ... RAID 1 RAID 0 does not mirror, and puts your data at risk from failure of EITHER drive, as each holds only half your data. -- mike finley
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by Dana Myers
... I would *highly* recommend using at least a RAID 0 mirror for back-up purposes. With a single drive, any error results in lost data; the chances of
Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by zz_ir
I m still not sold on online storage at this point, so I invested $60 in a 1TB Iomega external drive for my primary backup for my files. It is a great
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by Dick Rawson
Sure have. I, also, have switched to hard drives for data archives. So far, the hard-drive vendors have kept up with my photo library. All I have still fits
[Digital BW] Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by Paul
Yes, thank you, Eddie... that s it, that s the brand. Couldn t think of it right off hand! Paul
Re: [Digital BW] Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by edward wiseman
Hi.. The master source for the gold CD s/DVD s is MAMA, which stands for MITSUI AMERICA..I ve been using their products for years w/o any problems..They have
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by Paul
Glad to hear you mention gold CD s, but I haven t had trouble locating them. I got them on-line, sorry I don t have that source handy right now. I also use
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Light Impressions
2011-02-10 by Mark Savoia
There ARE no rules. Mark http://www.stillrivereditions.com
Re: Light Impressions
2011-02-10 by arlenelove3@aol.com
When my order didn t arrive after several weeks, the L. I. charge was on my credit card bill. When I phoned LI, the woman said they didn t have the mattes I
Re: [Digital BW] CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by Lew
What s paper ? Lew ... From: rick.b Sender: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:44:21 To:
Re: CD/DVD failure?
2011-02-10 by ben
This was a topic I looked into years ago. Then, I learned that all CDs were not equal. That the gold CDs were better in archiving data. But it has become