Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Film is Archival
From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:38:56 -0600

what's the best (okay, most economical) form of large storage these days-
say in the 200/400/600gb range?

thanks

tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Brian Reid
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 5:20 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Film is Archival
>
>
>
>
> > But what will you backup these 400 GB to?
>
> To make a safe backup you should pick a storage medium that is
> mainstream, popular, uses a widely publicized or standard
> encoding, and is as universal as possible.
>
> I would make an archival backup of 400GB from a G4 by buying two
> 200GB FireWire hard drives, copying the data to them in some
> archival format (such as gtar or /bin/dump), wrapping them in
> plastic, and padding, putting them into a fireproof box, and
> making a note that 5 years from now I should copy them to a new medium.
>
> The most common failure of digital archiving techniques is the
> use of a medium or protocol that is proprietary or insufficiently
> commercial. What will save you is to use the most mainstream
> commercial technology possible. Disks that are unplugged and
> packed against vibration and kept from extremes of temperature
> will last a very long time.
>
> However, it is unlikely that you really need an *archival* backup
> of all 400GB, so you could maybe get by with one FireWire 200.
>
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Replies: Reply from Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> (RE: [Leica] Film is Archival)
Reply from Spencer Cheng <spencer@aotera.org> (Re: [Leica] Film is Archival)