Posted by P.C. Ford on 02/04/07 03:06

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:14:53 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
<rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:

>This is why I save the original tapes and use batch-capture.
>So that if a drive crashes, it is just an annoyance to re-load
>the video. It is simple/easy enough to keep the production
>meta-data (the batch capture files, the project file, etc.)
>copied on another drive somewhere because they are small.

Truth be told, most of the projects that I may have lost were
completed. I am a packrat and don't delete them 'til I absolutely have
to. It's come in handy.

There was almost no footage of the current project. That which I lost
I can recapture. There were some notes on the current project which
were lost. I did find a hard copy of an Excel sheet of about 50
people involved in the history of the doc I am doing.

A screw-up like this is not caused by one thing...it usually takes a
series of screw-ups. That is certainly the case here. The first was
choosing RAID 0.

Even if the worst happens. I will survive. I have to have very brief
overview done in 2 1/2 weeks. I think I can make it.

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