My method, not necessarily the best or most efficient:
1. External hard drive is the first recipient of images from the card.
2. Process, saving .PEF files as hi-res jpegs after conversion.
3. Move the .PEF files on to CD's
4. Backup the jpg's on to different CD's, cumulatively.
5. If I've done DNG conversions, also move the DNG's to CD.
The hard drive is then the permanent on-line location, with a folder
structure that helps to quickly find images by subject.
IMV, hard drives are a lot more reliable and likely to be around for much
longer than any other medium. Mine is a USB2.0 drive, and since this
appears to be a reasonably fast and reliable connection method I don't
expect it to die any time soon. I do have a SCSI interface card on my
desktop, and started off saving images to ZIP drives, but 100MB disks fill
up surprisingly quickly - and , of course, there are the rumours of ZIP
disks dying on one, although I haven't had it happen to me (yet!).
HTH
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:09 PM
Subject: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Dear gang,
I discovered the "need more storage" thread just now, by looking in the
archives. Long term storage is a hot topic among my friends over here
at the moment, but nobody seems to have any "best practice" to point
to.
"Nobody" includes me too :-) but I would very much like to establish
a good practice for myself.
So by googling, and some thinking, I've come down to a list of things to
consider. I'm not sure if this is a good list to go by, and would very
much
like to hear some opinions:
1. Longevity of storage medium (Hard-drive, DVD, etc.)
2. Longevity of the technology used to access the medium (USB, SCSI, etc.)
3. Longevity of software support for the chosen file format (RAW, TIFF,
etc.)
Then there is:
4. Data safeguarding (backup routines etc.)
5. Data availability (access time to a file)
6. Production volume (number of exposures and edit-files)
7. Convenience
8. Cost (both time and money)
By any measure, a solution to cover all this points will be a trade-off
between several of them. Convenience and longevity pull in the same
direction, for example, while cost pulls the other way.
So what do you think? And how do you store your precious moments?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Jostein
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