methods of P2 backups

[Arthur Luhn]

Does anyone else back up P2 to DVD-R? What are your experiences?

Also another question, if I back up to DVD-R, do I dump hard data on the DVD (i.e. the P2 folders), or does it need to be formatted for DVD (for example, the “burn straight to DVD” option in iDVD).

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I use good old dvd’s. I shoot with 4 gig cards and each card fits
snuggly on a disc. I use binders of 300 to store them in and it works just
fine. I have never had a disc go bad but I am sure it can happen.

I purchase the Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-R and get 200 at a time which breaks
down to 25 cents per disc. These are as good as the Apple discs I use
to buy, high quality but much cheaper.

[Arthur Luhn]

has anyone else backed up P2 to DVD-R? If so, what are your experiences?

Question: When backing up to DVD-R, do you dump hard data on the disc? (i.e., P2 folders) or do you need to format it beforehand? (for example: “burn straight to DVD” option in iDVD).

[Jeremy Garchow]

Get the burning application, Toast, and make data DVDs. Or you can burn data DVDs straight in OSX. SImply put in a DVD-R, drag the data to the disk and hit burn.

Couldn’t be more simple.

Jeremy

[Arthur Luhn]

Does iDVD do the same job? Or is toast better?

[Lars Wikstrom]

You don’t what to use iDVD because you are not making a DVD video disc. I use Toast and I burn the 2 files that come off of the P2 card the Contents folder and the ever important LASTCLIP.TXT

With that on disc you can import right from it as well. It costs me about 6 cents per Gig doing it this way but you end up with lots of discs. Again I store them in large 300 disc folders.

-Lars

[Indyplayer]

I use external SATA drive enclosure. It is cheap. Using a raid is too expensive, if a drive of mine actually does die, I have an unmount esata backed up on my self

[Nick B]

‘ It costs me about 6 cents per Gig doing it this way but you end up with lots of discs’

What about YOUR time and the time you charge the client for your machine in making 300 disks the cost must be much more than 6 cents per Gig

[Lars Wikstrom]

You know I don’t factor in that cost. That was just my out of pocket expense. I have my laptop on the shoots and I upgraded my DVD burner from the default one that came in the PowerBooks. When I finish a 4 gig card I pop it into the laptop and make a DVD backup of it while I shoot on a second card. When I finish with the second card the first DVD is finished and verified and just swap the cards and pop in a new DVD for the next burn.

The discs are my masters and that seems to work for me. So, there is no time that I am sitting around waiting so I don;t charge for that time.

-Lars