Subject: Re: La Cie
From: Larry Austin (larryaustin@grandecom.net)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 16:16:57 EDT
I back up regularly to my 248 GB Maxtor hard drive. I also, of course,
back up to CD-R. So far, so good. I have suffered 2 hard drive failures
in the last 15 years of using a NeXt machine, an SGI O2, and my Mac
PB-G4 laptop. One needs lots of redundancy with back up systems.
Larry
Michael Gogins wrote:
> I solve the problem by backing up on multiple hard drives and occasionally to CD-ROM. One of the hard drives is an iRiver (i-Pod clone) with a 40GB drive.
>
> This kind of solution is fine while one is active, but for anyone whose work will be interest after their retirement or death, this is completely inadequate. The risk of media becoming obsolete or worse yet physically unreadable before they are taken over by a competent archivist who can transfer and maintain them is obvious.
>
> As far as I know there are no "archival" digital media. I expect CD-ROMs will probably last a good while though. Unfortunately they are too small for media files any more.
>
> I think librarians are probably quite concerned about this situation. I wonder what they do about it.
>
> One obvious solution is to physically back up the entire Internet at reasonably short intervals. I do not know how feasible this is but I think it would be the best solution for all concerned.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Benjamin Broening <bbroenin@richmond.edu>
> >Sent: Sep 7, 2006 1:19 PM
> >To: cec-conference@concordia.ca
> >Subject: Re: La Cie
> >
> >Having lost two drives (one a La Cie, the other an internal powerbook
> >drive (gravity)), I am very interested in finding long term solution
> >to backing up audio data. I am wondering what people on the list do
> >for reliable long-term backups. RDVD's are reported to be unreliable,
> >hard drives fail.. Right now, I back up to two hard drives, but I'm
> >not sure how well that will work over the longer term as the amount
> >of data I need to back up increases....
> >
> >I'd love to hear how people solve this problem.
> >
> >best,
> >
> >Ben
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Aki Pasoulas wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Kevin,
> >>
> >> I own one of these, the d2 Extreme 250 GB and I have also lost data
> >> three times -
> >> fortunately recoverable through DiskWarrior and also through Norton
> >> Utilities in my OS9.
> >> The problem seemed to be in the directories and happened after
> >> crashes, so there was no
> >> chance to unmount before shutting down the computer.
> >>
> >> back up - back up - back up
> >>
> >> Aki
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