32562 images
:: Friday, August 16th, 2002 @ 2:19:32 am
:: Tags: General
I’m in the process of backing up all of the non-travel digital photos I have taken. It just fits onto a single 33GB tape. Insane. 33 gigabytes of life - 32562 images, so far. The travel photos take up another 21 gigabytes (22,000 images). It’s not entirely accurate, since I often output each image optimized for multiple resolutions, but it’s still a lot of bits.
I can’t believe I missed the Perseid meteor showers this year. It’s the first time in YEARS that I have missed them. I suppose I was just too distracted this time around. :(
Now I’m really going to bed.
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I recently broke the 100+ GB barrier. Frightening. That’s more data than any human being should have.
is some of that audio, Jim? i need to re-format my hard drives pretty soon, and i’m scared to death of something going wrong and losing some irreplaceable recordings … though i think Vie’s stuff is all safe.
perhaps i should invest in tape backups.
it was foggy up on the peaks. :( no meteor shower for me, either.
still haven’t figured out an appropriate pseudonym. ;) i’d use my last name or something, but i don’t want it out there on the net.
a cheaper way than investing in tape backups: borrow tape drive from me. it got one that works with macs, too.
errr. or something. most of the tech notes on their support site were about os x. firewire->scsi driver crap or something.
Yeah, it’s mostly audio. A little bit of video from my Cannon DV cam. I have one FW drive and one SCSI drive for tracking. Then a big 60GB FW drive solely for backups. That way I can throw everything into the 60GB and keep re-formatting the tracking drives without worry.
Hmm… hope that’s not confusing. :) Works for me.
I make it a habit to do a full tape backup of everything I have every six months or so. Those tapes are deposited into a safety deposit box at the bank.
The rest of the time, I just rsync to remote machines with the ocassional tape dump I keep at home.
Just an idea.
-Adam