AudioGaff
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2001
At the request of the Da Dog, lets discuss the hardware and activity of backup/archiving?
At one time it was simple. The analog multitrack tapes and the 2-track master tapes were put in a box and stored on a shelf or in the closet along with with the track sheets and mabe a few other notes. I don't remember ever really worrying or doing safety copies until DAT machines and then with ADAT tapes. Now it is a whole other ball game and a very time consuming process of backup/archiving in multiformats is a necessary chore to be done.
I myself, pretty much now rely on several safety copies of CD-R (in PCM or data or both) and use DAT for a temp storage that I recycle after the client has blessed and paid off the bill/invoice. I don't believe or trust hard disks as being a long term proper backup and storage format. I also don't have much faith in CD-R either, but it is the most easy and cheapest way to do both data and real time playable backup/archive and if I make half a dozen copies it takes most of the worry away for the short and mid term. As for responsability, unless I'm paid a specific and separate archiving and storage fee, once I'm paid I am no longer responsable. And if you bring me back something for rework and I have to restore it back to my hard disks or tapes, there is a separate fee to do that.
So let everybody chime in on how and what your doing for backup/archiving as well as the formats and hardware your using to do so. We might as also discuss who is responsable and what they are responsable for as well.
At one time it was simple. The analog multitrack tapes and the 2-track master tapes were put in a box and stored on a shelf or in the closet along with with the track sheets and mabe a few other notes. I don't remember ever really worrying or doing safety copies until DAT machines and then with ADAT tapes. Now it is a whole other ball game and a very time consuming process of backup/archiving in multiformats is a necessary chore to be done.
I myself, pretty much now rely on several safety copies of CD-R (in PCM or data or both) and use DAT for a temp storage that I recycle after the client has blessed and paid off the bill/invoice. I don't believe or trust hard disks as being a long term proper backup and storage format. I also don't have much faith in CD-R either, but it is the most easy and cheapest way to do both data and real time playable backup/archive and if I make half a dozen copies it takes most of the worry away for the short and mid term. As for responsability, unless I'm paid a specific and separate archiving and storage fee, once I'm paid I am no longer responsable. And if you bring me back something for rework and I have to restore it back to my hard disks or tapes, there is a separate fee to do that.
So let everybody chime in on how and what your doing for backup/archiving as well as the formats and hardware your using to do so. We might as also discuss who is responsable and what they are responsable for as well.