Re: Back-up/Archive of Digital Photographs...Suggestions?

Robert R Kircher, Jr. wrote:

When every I'm asked about this from my clients I point to this article
http://www.popphoto.com/article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=1492&page_number=1

Lastly, since media and file formats are bound to change over time the idea of long term storage of you images is sort of misguided. Eventually we'll all have to migrate our data to the latest file system/technology. As long as your media of choice still works at this point you're in good shape. My solution is redundancy. I have multiple copies of my images on multiple media including USB drives and DVD. My main storage is a RAID-5 on my server (this can be done on the desktop as well). This gives me 3+ opportunities to recover from storage disasters. The chances of not recovering data with such redundancy is slim to none.

Robert,
Good advice.  But a warning on raid 5: it CAN fail.  At work I
had a raid 5 box with fifteen 250 GByte hard drives configured as
2 raid 5 arrays.  The fan went out and the hard drives cooked,
with complete failure on multiple drives, losing all data.
Fortunately, we had them backed up to raid 5 arrays in another
building.  I also had critical components on DVD (the raid arrays
were not full, but more than I would copy to DVD, so only part
was on DVD).

It just illustrates, backup backup backup.

Roger
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