From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 12/02/02-04:50:34 PM Z
You can add to a cd that has already been written, if you leave it open after writing to it. Or, use a cd-RW that can be re-written. CD-R blanks are often free (after rebate) these days, so I don't bother with the RW types anymore.
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mateo <mateo@mateoleyba.com>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:37:07 -0700
>on 12/2/02 12:49 PM, Judy Seigel at jseigel@panix.com wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Clyde Rogers wrote:
>>
>>>> BTW, just for the record, a 4 X 6.5" scan of a color negative at 2400
>>>> dpi gives a raw file of almost 400mb. Think my most important need is
>>>> to replace the 100mb Zip drive with a 750mb version.
>>>
>>> Burn CDs---more reliable, more universal (it will be easier to read a
>>> CD than a 750 Zip 20 years from now), and much cheaper.
>
>> The zip drive is also a much more practical back up for ongoing work --
>> after a day, or even an hour, of work I may have a relatively small file
>> that I wouldn't use a CD for (since they have to be done at one stroke),
>> but can in 5 seconds back on the zip disk always onscreen. In fact I hear
>> with amazement of folks whose hard drives crashed leaving them ENTIRELY
>> UNBACKED. I don't like to tempt the digitons who have a grudge against me
>> from a prior existence, but my thought is that those folks did NOT have a
>> zip at hand.
>>
>> Judy
>>
>
>
>For Mac users (OS X), an inexpensive and easy way to manage backup is to
>invest in TWO large FW drives (<$500) and use the OS to setup a simple
>mirrored RAID. This scenario gives you around 60G of redundancy without
>taking time to do a backup. If you want a hard copy backup or need to use
>the file offsite burn a DVD, or use another portable FW dive. As someone
>said earlier a DVD and CD will be around a lot longer than a proprietary
>Iomega disk.
>
>mateo
>
>
>
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