Re: Archiving & Labeling Photo CDs

Just my 2 cents here, any thing electronic or anything that moves ie. HDD
can go bad or go out, there is not a foolproof way to totaly back up, just
use multi ways, so there will be at least some data, pics backed up some
where, yes its a pain, but Murphy lives on.

"Celcius" <celcius38@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Randy W. Sims wrote:
How do you archive your Photos? Do you store your Raw files on CD? For
those using DNG, do archive both to CD? Together or to separate discs?
What about the touched up photos; Do you store them together or
separately?

How do you label your CDs? What software do you use for labeling? And
what information do you put on the labels?

I'd contend that CDs (or DVDs) are a poor way to archive photos.
How long do you expect a home-burnt disk to be readable? 10 years? 20
years?
Will you still have the software to read a propriatory RAW format in 20
years time?
The only way to ensure digital data is preserved is to keep copying it
to new media and possibly new file formats. How likely are you to do
that if it involves feeding disk after disk into a reader?
Better to get a decent size hard drive on your PC and a similar size
external removable hard drive for backups. That way when the time
comes to copy that data across you can do it all in one go. Sure it
will take a while but you can just kick off the copy and let it run for
however many hours or days it takes.


A 200GB drive will let you take 5x10MB images every day for 10 years,
why mess around with CDs?

... because HD's can go haywire... and you lose all your data
My friend had a problem with his motherboard. It corrupted his HD and
nothing was retrievable.
Marcel




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