Comments on: Best practices for file archiving? http://www.deannazandt.com/2008/04/07/best-practices-for-file-archiving/ Media technologist and author in Brooklyn, NY. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: joly http://www.deannazandt.com/2008/04/07/best-practices-for-file-archiving/comment-page-1/#comment-3115 joly Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:15:05 +0000 http://www.deannazandt.com/?p=101#comment-3115 Just remember that HD's not only can fail but, particularly if you cart them about, can also get lost. That's a plus for online - it's usually on redundant RAID arrays that are pretty reliable. It might be an idea to use an online thing for temporary back-up, meanwhile keep a monster hard-drive at your folk's place. It makes a good excuse to visit regularly for archiving sessions. Just remember that HD’s not only can fail but, particularly if you cart them about, can also get lost. That’s a plus for online – it’s usually on redundant RAID arrays that are pretty reliable. It might be an idea to use an online thing for temporary back-up, meanwhile keep a monster hard-drive at your folk’s place. It makes a good excuse to visit regularly for archiving sessions.

]]> By: deanna zandt http://www.deannazandt.com/2008/04/07/best-practices-for-file-archiving/comment-page-1/#comment-3114 deanna zandt Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:48 +0000 http://www.deannazandt.com/?p=101#comment-3114 Yeah, I've decided that everything is going to the external hard drives. Moving my iPhoto library alone freed up 15+GB. Dang. I can't do a network thing because I want to be able to take the drive with me to places without connectivity (i.e., Mom & Dad's in upstate NY) and show off the photos and other creative work... What I'm trying to decide now is where to draw some lines as far as timeframes to move things to archive. I moved all mail from 2005 last night and freed up another 1.5GB, which is nice. Going to see how my OCD self feels about that. ;-) Yeah, I’ve decided that everything is going to the external hard drives. Moving my iPhoto library alone freed up 15+GB. Dang.

I can’t do a network thing because I want to be able to take the drive with me to places without connectivity (i.e., Mom & Dad’s in upstate NY) and show off the photos and other creative work…

What I’m trying to decide now is where to draw some lines as far as timeframes to move things to archive. I moved all mail from 2005 last night and freed up another 1.5GB, which is nice. Going to see how my OCD self feels about that. ;-)

]]> By: Jamie http://www.deannazandt.com/2008/04/07/best-practices-for-file-archiving/comment-page-1/#comment-3111 Jamie Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:03:51 +0000 http://www.deannazandt.com/?p=101#comment-3111 I think our little laptops are increasingly going in the direction of becoming our little cell phones or music players - getting smaller and smaller and getting more and more easy to connect to the Internet at any time. I haven't had your experiences with photos - but I have with music. My solution has been to setup server machines to hold all the data and get creative with synchronizing and accessing what I need over the network. While hard drive space keeps getting cheaper and cheaper - I think our computers are getting smaller and smaller - so I do think we need to face the fact that we can't have all our data on the devices in our hands - which doesn't mean we can't have access to all our data. I think our little laptops are increasingly going in the direction of becoming our little cell phones or music players – getting smaller and smaller and getting more and more easy to connect to the Internet at any time.

I haven’t had your experiences with photos – but I have with music. My solution has been to setup server machines to hold all the data and get creative with synchronizing and accessing what I need over the network.

While hard drive space keeps getting cheaper and cheaper – I think our computers are getting smaller and smaller – so I do think we need to face the fact that we can’t have all our data on the devices in our hands – which doesn’t mean we can’t have access to all our data.

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