November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
12h 41m
English
Content preview from The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers
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Digital Asset Management
Backing Up Your Archive: How Safe Is Safe?
There is a saying among IT-geeks that a backup is not a backup until there
are at least two copies, one of which is off-site. I use two kinds of backup
media for archive files: a set of hard drives stored at a remote location,
and a set of DVDs locked up here at the studio. I consider the off-site hard
drives to be the primary backup. (I know several photographers who find
DVD burning to be too time-consuming, and choose instead to back up to
multiple hard drives.)
Understanding Threats to Your Archive’s Well-Being
Just as the new capabilities of digital media bring new solutions, the vul-
nerabilities of digital media bring a whole new set of challenges to the
serious photographer. It’s up to photographers to determine for themselves
how much risk they can tolerate, and to balance that against the cost of
Backing Up Your Archive
Figure 4-19. The big safe safe.
Keywords:
Safe, Storage, Security, Vault
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Chapter 4, Creating the Digital Archive, Part 2: Hardware Configurations
redundancy. Let’s take a look at some of the dangers to your archive’s well-
being, and some of the solutions.
Device failure
Device failure encompasses the entire range of hardwa ...
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