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Archiving fun…
Really, just part of the territory, but for months i’d been thinking about moving old date from old (internal) drives to newer, larger ones…also making sure those old drives are even still functional! ☺ Some aren’t, but it’s a good process, and makes me get better at my current archiving/back-up practices. Heading to Best Buy shortly to buy a couple more 3 or 4TB drives to continue this process.
Are most of you using DLT, or some other form of archiving? I know hard drives won’t last forever, and at a certain point, no one will ever care about seeing a lot (MOST?) of this stuff anyway, but for now i sleep better knowing i have two copies of everything.
So, not really asking a question here, but just sharing what i do, unless of course one of you says, “are you CRAZY?!?! still using hard drives?!?!?!” At which point i will happily listen to know if there is a better, faster, cheaper, more efficient method.
Drives: Seagate, WD…Black, Blue, Green. Any favorites out there?
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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Latest reports on DLT suggest you have to keep updating both the hardware and software so the advantage may be for operations that need to back up tremendous amounts of data. Not so useful for me with my small data “footprint.” Seems like I might as well keep updating hardware (hard drives) and software and indicate in my will a person/entitity who will keep doing that. A guy who helped set up the Library of Congress suggested buying a life insurance policy and leaving a legacy to an institution who will archive your work. But maybe these are not your concerns.
Cheers,
RobertRobert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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We’re using HDDs. Plan is that we really shouldn’t need to keep much of what we do for over 5 years. But, of course, there’s always that one client… “remember that footage we shot from 8 years ago?”… LOL!
I know a lot of people that disagree, but I’ve had good luck with Seagate drives for quite a few years. For home and work. I think I’ve lost more WD than anything, and have had more Seagates than anything.
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Thanks TC. I am that one client. In fact I am my own client. I’ve been making independent films since about 1970, like some of my friends. We archive our films for the life of the films. I recently attended a screening of a friend’s film at the New York City Museum of Modern Art which film was released in 1985, Lots of people remembered that film and that filmmaker ☺
Nice to know what people are doing in the 5-8-year life span industry.
What most of us have been doing is digitizing celluloid to hard drives as needed, and copying and backing up hard drives to other drives and buying new computers with new operating systems and churning away like this forever.
Best wishes; live long and prosper!
Robert
Robert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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Remember the most important fact of archiving, no matter which medium you choose: offsite! No matter how many copies you have in the same facility, if it collapses, burns down, or experiences any other “act of God”, you’re as well off as if you hadn’t backed anything up!
When I was art director at a large broadcast station, we used DLT, and part of my job was rotating a selection of backups which I would bring home with me. Of course, nothing ever happened…
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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