[MacDV] Re: Looking for more storage?

[Eagle]

On Jan 8, 2004, at 11:45, Peter van der Linden wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2004, at 8:15 AM, Doug Mitchell wrote:
>>  my "users folder" ... was about 6 gig so backing up to rewritable 
>> CD's is not a good option.  I recently purchased a 120 gig external 
>> firewire drive for my digital video files but I don't want to use 
>> this space to back up my main hard drive.  I could purchase a 
>> rewritable DVD drive or I could purchase another harddrive.
>
> Backups need to be quick and convenient, or else they don't get done.  
> Then when your disk fails (which statistically is the most likely 
> failure on a system, as well as the most catastrophic) you are hosed.
>
> The current generation of consumer DVD's only go up to 4.7GB capacity. 
>  The next generation will go to 9GB, but they won't be available in 
> volume for a year or more.  So you need to back up to disk.  The 
> alternative is to find some software that can split backups across 
> several dvds.  Or to split your data so that no one folder is bigger 
> than a single dvd.  That's tiresome - we have computers to keep track 
> of that kind of stuff. I recommend you get a cheap external firewire 
> disk.  Any capacity in excess of 6GB will do.  A used disk is fine.  
> Better, get a couple of used external disks, and rotate them.

What about DV Backup?  (http://www.coolatoola.com/)  I know backup 
isn't really DV related, but "DV Backup" might be. ;)  Anyone tried 
that software and have experience with it?  The author claims 15GB per 
tape, which sounds interesting to me.  Once I buy my new machine (iMac 
17" SD) in the next few days, I plan to try out this software.

Eagle