Lea,
I would think that the probability of a house burning or a darkroom
flooding is a lot less likely to happen that a computer file being lost,
as in accidentally erasing it.
A thought,
Bill Ellis
lea murphy wrote:
I'm just throwing this out there to spark a bit of discussion while I
archive some files.
I am dumping 500 gigs of images from hard drive 'a' to hard drive
'b'. Hard drive 'a' will then be erased and used for more files. Hard
drive 'b' will be cataloged and stored. These are client files and
this will be my only archive of these files.
I used to burn them to dvd but I had two discs fail so gave up that
method as a way of archiving.
So my comment is this: I used to think it was absolutely necessary to
keep two and sometimes three copies of client files on various hard
drives but it occured to me that when I was shooting film I didn't
run around making copy negs of those images just to have a backup.
Why do we drive ourselves nuts having multiple copies of digital files?
I know hard drives fail. I also know darkrooms flood and houses burn.
What do you guys think of this? One copy and take our chances...just
like in the old days with film.
Lea
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