Best way to backup info????
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HartStudio
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Let me just ask... How are you backing up that kind of data to dvd? Personally I am also looking for a new backup system as well, currently I am using a single Ultium 100/200 gig tape drive and about 6 ultrium tapes. The tapes are about $35 a piece. If I was using DVD that would amount to 134 DVDs minimum and 266 DVDs maximum theoritical for me and 89 DVDs for gstarza to back up 400 gigs solution. I don't think that is a feasable .
Jan Crit posted some time ago 3 different backup solutions. One included recording to optical holographic media. www.inphase-technologies.com they had a drive on their website called the tapestry HDS 200-r which the link I made to that drive is broken now.
Anybody know were that post went?
Unless you are using some kind of super compression DVD backup program, I don't think it is a good solution.
Jan Crit posted some time ago 3 different backup solutions. One included recording to optical holographic media. www.inphase-technologies.com they had a drive on their website called the tapestry HDS 200-r which the link I made to that drive is broken now.
Anybody know were that post went?
Unless you are using some kind of super compression DVD backup program, I don't think it is a good solution.
A few warnings about tape:
You have to be very careful with any sort of tape archiving. I used to work for a company that archived to DAT. Very thin, and they turned so brittle over time that they broke when we tried to de-archive some files.
I admit that we could have had a policy of duplicating onto new tapes periodically. We didn't. Just saying that you have to keep in mind the fragility of that medium.
It's also slow...the sort of thing that can take all day with several tapes. A tape changer would help.
Finally, it saves compressed files so if they get corrupted, they can be particularly hard to rescue.
Just some tradeoffs for lots of cheap storage space.
You have to be very careful with any sort of tape archiving. I used to work for a company that archived to DAT. Very thin, and they turned so brittle over time that they broke when we tried to de-archive some files.
I admit that we could have had a policy of duplicating onto new tapes periodically. We didn't. Just saying that you have to keep in mind the fragility of that medium.
It's also slow...the sort of thing that can take all day with several tapes. A tape changer would help.
Finally, it saves compressed files so if they get corrupted, they can be particularly hard to rescue.
Just some tradeoffs for lots of cheap storage space.