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Posted by Pat Horridge on 12/12/06 16:55
Well thanks for being honest and helping others learn form your misake.
At least it has some value to the time lost if it helps somebody else
prevent that lose.
It's very easy to get lax and that's the biggest danger.
Slightly off topic (as not useful in this context)
Have you looked at Carbonite? the online backup solution for my documents?
It's cheap and seems to work well. A nice simple solution for generic
backup.
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
news:12ng9hhoahfj433@corp.supernews.com...
> "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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