From: Boris Trenn (btrennyahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 05:58:52 CST

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Hello,

if money is not the Problem, why u dont use True Image
:), u can safe the complete HD while ur system is
workin and can write it back via CD and your System is
fully avail after a short time. Runs perfect with
kernel 2.4.xx and costs only 699 € :)

Best Regards
Boris

 --- Peter Romianowski <antaraperogmx.de> schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> just my 2 cents:
>
> If money is an issue why not backup on a RAID system
> only? This can be a
> quite cheap SATA-NAS (just bought one with 1.2 TB
> netto for about 5,000 euros).
> With RAID-5 and a couple of spare-disks I guess you
> are save enough, especially
> compared to single HDs. ;)
>
> Of course it is best to do additional tape backups -
> but that is quite
> expensive for these amounts of data and I doubt that
> you need this
> extra savety.
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
> > Philippe Vogel wrote:
> >> piet schrieb:
> >>
> >>> dear group,
> >>> Can you give me some insight on how to store
> data (photos) savely and
> >>> what kind of procedure I can follow best.
> >>> We produce about 200Gig raw images a year.
> >>> the workflow now is:
> >>> work on a XP-box and copy the raw's and the
> jpeg's to a SuSE-box with
> >>> winscp as a backup on removable harddisks. (I
> stopped making cd-s as
> >>> we produce to much data, storing raw's and
> jpeg's)
> >>>
> >>> Will the removable disks last (ide
> western-digital)? now and again
> >>> they're used on the system.
> >>>
> >>> We were used to shoot on slide film, now our
> entire workflow has
> >>> changed and it troubles me to meet the time when
> images can't be
> >>> retreived.
> >>> regards,
> >>> piet
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sounds like a photostudio or medical photo
> industry.
> >>
> >> I would do so:
> >>
> >> - main system raid 5, scsi
> >> - temporary backup over nas (network attached
> storage) for latest data
> >> - nas is synced with your data every day over
> night
> >> - daily/weekly backups of all media (with tar) on
> (with gfs like the
> >> solution in the other mail)
> >>
> >> 200 GB or greater tapes (e.g.
> >>
>
http://www.storagebysony.com/products/productmain.asp?id=142)
> >> or
> >> DVD-RAM Jukebox
> >>
> >> A DVD jukebox has the advantage that you can
> later access the data
> >> within the dvd-tower, e.g. here:
> >>
> >>
>
http://www.cddimensions.com/cd_jukebox/dvd-jukebox.asp
> >>
> >> 45 - 700 discs/max. 6 drives per jukebox
> >>
> >> There are even solutions from kodak for medical
> imaging storage.
> >> O.K. this may cost a hell, but lost data can cost
> more money depending
> >> on the importance of that data.
> >>
> >> Philippe
> >>
> > thanks for replying.
> > well your guess is close, we = two freelance
> photographers
> > and in the old days storage wasn't so much a worry
> but finding images was,
> > now shooting digital for almost 2 years, I begin
> to worry a bit about
> > storage.
>
> > The financial aspect might be a bottle neck.
>
> > thanks again,
> > piet
>
>
>
>
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