I've had very little extra time lately. After a year plus shooting every day my archive finally became the beast I knew it was. I've spent the last month or so reorganizing how I do everything digitally. Most importantly I've had to completely rethink my archive and back up systems. I'm getting close to being done. I will leave you with one piece of advice. If you're trusting the backup of your digital life to just dvd's....don't. I speak from a rather unpleasant recent experience.
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20 March, 2006 • Express Train
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great timing!!! distant, yet close. i dig this shot...
Wow, you caught a great moment. Great image,Travis.
Great shot. Lovely shadows.
I weep a little everytime I look at this, but only a little. Great shot. Everyone who sees this post should go and randomly kiss their loved ones!
"I wanna hold your haaannnd"....beautiful Travis.You tugged at my heartstrings with this shot....
Beautiful moment. Quick eye.
Good luck on the archiving. Let us know your new strategy, please share. I'm considering getting a better camera and shooting on RAW, but the archiving is one of the things I haven't figured out yet. A bit intimidating.
In brief: I back up every night to an external firewire drive (Maxtor). When a folder of images on my main internal drive has been edited, rated and had metadata added it is moved to a two drive RAID. My RAID is two hard drives housed in a "hard drive enclosure". These two drives appear as one on my desktop. When I copy to the RAID it is actually being copied to both hard drives (mirrored). When those drives are full they will be stored in seperate locations. This is cheaper than buying external drives. I will also back up too dvd's just for kicks. I say that because they don't always work. Hope that helps.
Another woderful and intimate shot! you must be quick to be able to capture these moments...it's what keeps me coming back to see what today's photo is.
Travis, this is quite a remarkable moment.
" And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world it is best to hold hands and stick together." - Robert Fulghum
Beware Maxtor Firewire hard drives! I had one crap out on me recently. Tekserve recommended the LaCie D2 as the most stable. I'm currently doing double back up - onto two drives - plus completed jobs into a CD/DVD archive. And crossing my fingers. Maybe I should look into RAID but I think I'm dealing w/much smaller volume than you are.
Love the image too!
Patty, That Maxtor drive is just a nightly backup. I've heard bad things about every drive out there. Lacie and Maxtor seem to be the most popular, so it is inevitable they will both have their detractors. Here are some numbers that convinced me of my new system. Those external drives cost you about .90 per mb. Not to mention the space they take up. If you get a hard drive enclosure you can insert any drive you want, and as many as you want (1,2,4 at least). I'm using Western Digital. When you go this route the price per mb comes down to around .60. There is a little start up costs but it can all be absorbed in a couple of years. It's all plug and play.