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Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/07/06 14:33
"Pat Horridge" wrote ...
> Richard how can you have lost that much work due to drive failure?
Stupidity. The feeling that "it couldn't happen to ME"
> That would imply you kept no backups of your edit's
> during that time. I can't belive you didn't.
> If it's timecoded format you can restore the sequence
> and reconform the media from tape.
Indeed, I recommend to others that they keep the "meta-
data" (the batch capture list, the edit decision list, etc.)
backed up to at least another drive somewhere. "If only"
I had done that myself. :-(
At least it didn't take as long the second time as I had
the methodology all developed for deciding where to
edit, how to make titles more efficiently, etc.
> If it's non timecode you would have course made backups
> to other drives or tape streamer after capture.
I haven't found any streaming tape solutions that seemed
cost-effective unless you have a good budget for it.
Especially for bulk data like video.
> I agree tape is the most durable but drives are so cheap nowadays
> making redundancy backups shouldn't be expensive.
Back when it happend, drives were much more expensive,
and I had a total of 24 programs of 58:30 each. 12 on one
drive and 12 on the other one. The drives were brand new,
and one of them failed outright, and the other is so flaky that
I don't use it anymore.
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