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Archiving
I have been doing digital photography since 1999, albeit as family photographs at that time. Since buying the E1 the HDD has started to fill up more rapidly.
So how do I archive my pictures such that I am confident that in 30 years my pictures are still there? Having just scanned in some 30 year old negatives to use again this is not an idle question.
Currently I have a ghost drive which once a week I perform a complete ghost of my HDD, however a single psu fail in my pc might require expensive data recovery from both HDDs, or a burglar might steal my pc.
I keep some folders on CDR but I am concerned that CDR has a limited life, they are not archivable. Worse, because CDRs have error correction and I have no idea how much error correction is being done, one day they may work and the next they may not. I read that some expensive CDRs are given a life of 6 years but is that on my old CDR writer or on a ‘lab’ CDR writer? Also I don’t always buy the expensive CDRs.
I have considered using on line back up but what happens if one day I log on and find the company has gone bust and my archive is history?
I’ve looked at the cost of a RAID NAS server so I can hide it in my house so a burglar won’t get it and a single HDD failure is recoverable! However that is expensive and there are still opportunities to lose the lot.
So the question is, what do you do to archive your pictures?
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| MFT Time 11:56 Jul 30 2010 |
Audio Cds
From what I've read Audio CDs are more 'archivable' than CDRs and unfortunately I do have some early Audio CDs that won't play. I've also just considered changing from Corel to PS and hidden away on disc and in odd folders are lots of pictures in Corel format, so that's another form of obsolescence.
Rex Waygood HoF ♥ ¤ $ $ at 15:47 EDT on 2004-Aug-27 [Reply]
Nothing beats a hard drive!
I'd suggest getting two backup hard drives. They are really cheap ($/MB comparison) and they can store massive amounts of data/photos. Now if only I'd follow that rule myself!
Zguy ♥ ¤ ∞ at 17:41 EDT on 2004-Aug-27 [Reply]
CDR vs DVD-R
I have read somewhere, that CDRs are more archivable than DVDs. So I tend to backup all my data onto CDRs (2 sets) and not to DVDs. I keep blank folder stuctures on my HD so a quick seacrh will tell me what CD my data is written to.
Jeff McNeeley ¤ at 14:17 EDT on 2004-Sep-03 [Reply]
My idea...
I have been trying to backup my files to CDRW's, but they are just too small, I get about 10-20 days of shooting on one CD. I have considered DVDRW, but I think that I have the solution: Off-site hard drive. I am going to ask a friend to store either a USB-cased drive, or just a hard disk in his computer and sync the contents every night. A 160GB drive costs nothing compared to stacks of CD's or even DVD's.
Jón Ragnarsson at 07:00 EDT on 2004-Oct-13 [Reply]
Fuji Photo CDs
I'm using the new Fuji Photo CDRs with the special UV protection layer. I'll let you know if they're any good in 20 years or so!
Bradley Smith ¤ at 05:04 EST on 2005-Feb-17 [Reply]
This amused me
Longlife store for Windscale data
Details of radioactive waste from the decommissioned Windscale Reactor have been stored on `permanent' paper to ensure that the information remains intact for future generations. The data is to be placed on 11,718 sheets of special permanent paper, packed in copper-impregnated bags and stored in long-life archive boxes. The decision was made to store it this way because electronic storage is prone to corruption, and supporting equipment and software can become obsolete. Permanent paper is acid free paper that does not deteriorate or discolour.
Engineer 8-21 August 2005
Where did I put that last roll of 35mm film???
Rex Waygood HoF ♥ ¤ $ $ at 15:09 EDT on 2005-Aug-09 [Reply]
NO SUBJECT
Hmmmmmmmmm
Eugene Donohoe HoF Win ♥ ¤ $ $ at 17:18 EDT on 2005-Aug-09 [Reply]
DVDs
Copies of my photos go onto both my and my girlfriend's computer, and DVDs go to both houses too. But we may start running out of disk space soon - especially if I start shooting RAW instead o SHQ! - so I may have to buy some extra drives.
Danny Yee ♥ ¤ $ at 07:28 EDT on 2005-Aug-10 [Reply]
clay tablets
Get your data encoded onto clay tablets and store them somewhere very dry. That's the most reliable storage medium over millenia, at least as tested so far.
Danny Yee ♥ ¤ $ at 07:30 EDT on 2005-Aug-10 [Reply]
NO SUBJECT
Museums are having to employ special techniques to recover data stored on media for which no working machines/drives/operating systems exist.
In thirty years time will you be able to read an .ORF file on anything?
Rex Waygood HoF ♥ ¤ $ $ at 07:53 EDT on 2005-Aug-10 [Reply]