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yeloocproducer

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Re: Data Backups of mastering sessions
« Reply #45 on: May 12, 2006, 11:47:41 PM »

You always need a backup for the backup.
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Jerry Tubb

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Re: Data Backups of mastering sessions
« Reply #46 on: May 13, 2006, 01:47:02 AM »

yeloocproducer wrote on Fri, 12 May 2006 22:47

You always need a backup for the backup.


Back in the Stone Age before CD-R and cheap HDDs, we made 3 floppies of critical data... and two DATs of audio on different machines... before the working audio drive was erased and ready for the next project.

In the mid to late 90's we would temporarily archive to Jaz drives which were usually reliable, and then to CD-R..

Archiving is so easy & cheap now, tho' the session backup size has grown with 24 bit audio. The main cost is the time spent.

JT

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Re: Data Backups of mastering sessions
« Reply #47 on: May 13, 2006, 02:22:12 AM »

yeloocproducer wrote on Fri, 12 May 2006 20:47

You always need a backup for the backup.


I heard digital tape was dead.

Don't you at least want DLT?

DC

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Re: Data Backups of mastering sessions
« Reply #48 on: May 13, 2006, 03:33:02 PM »

Holy balls I can't believe how much these DLTs have come down in price if you shop around.   I just did a cursory search for best price on a DLT 600 internal drive and came up with $2400. Most of the other retailers had them at around 4.5K to 5K... even higher when I was shopping 4 months ago.

That's the worst part of proprietary formats for backup (tape, etc.)... but I needed backward compatibility with an older library so I started there.  Pretty much sucks to see the DLT crushing what I got going.  Oh well, it's functional. Confused
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