In the past, I’ve had several drives failing after less than a year of moderate usage, leading to gigabytes of unrecoverable data…The prices for mass storage have considerably gone down, and unfortunately so has the quality/reliability in my opinion. I tend not to trust hard drives for long term storage. It’s not the most practical and fastest solution, but it works for files less than 4.2GB (or less than 8GB for DVD-DL). As a safety measure, I make two copies on two different brands. I usually achieve all my documents, photos, videos and audio on DVD-Rs. Two days after having submitted my last assignments, my HDD died. I also like the fact that Carbon Copy Cloner’s writer wants you to only donate when you completely trust the product and it does not block some of the features in the free version (there’s only one version).ĭoes SuperDuper do a real incremental backup or a differential backup? CCC calls its backup “incremental backup,” but it seems to be doing a differential backup where it will backup only files that have changed, unless of course, I have not clearly understood the difference between differential and incremental like to live dangerously :-) I’ve been pretty serious about backing my data for a long time, but the most important reason is probably of what happened to me in Dec. It’s funny, because SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner are almost the same, except the first one is not free, whereas the second is. I tried SuperDuper once, but did not like it very much. Have you had the same problems? What strategy have you settled on for archiving your precious digital memories? Surely, Kyan and Anya will be able to stream the movies from S3 to their mobile phones when they’ll be big enough to have phones :-) This is extremely cheap! One added benefit is that the videos will all be accessible online. 113) for the first month (to account for the initial data transfer) Maybe it’s more sensible paying an air ticket to Réunion Island and doing it from there… Anyway, the cost to keep the data on Amazon S3 would then be: Let’s see, at 128 kbit/s, 13 days would be required to upload all the 17Gb of video. And those 48 movies certainly qualify as my most important files ever! Unfortunately, sending 17Gb of data to Amazon from Mauritius is not practical (and this is one of the most massive understatements I’ve ever made) due to the pathetic bandwidth we have here. I have been looking at Amazon S3 for some time now as a means to keep my most important files in a data-center somewhere. All in all, I’m happy… for the time being. I have also copied them on a second external hard disk I normally use to backup my MacBook. We have bought an external hard disk (a Lacie) to store those 48 files and I’ve copied them on the hard disk of one of the desktop computers I have access to. AAC Audio / Stereo / 48kHz / 128 kbit/sĬhristina and I are now the proud owners of 48 home made H264 movies taking 17Gb of space (more than 24 hours.).We settled on using HandBrake to do the conversion because, well, it’s excellent and open source.Īs we are planning to buy an AppleTV some day, I used the AppleTV preset in HandBrake with the following changes: I did a little bit of investigation and realized that we had to convert all our VCDs and DVDs to H264. Two weeks ago, Christina and I decided that having VCDs, DVDs and H264 Quicktime movies on my MacBook was going to hurt us in the long run. Consequently, this year, Christina and I stopped creating DVDs and started rendering our movies to H264 at 720×5 kbit/s. H264 is the new MPEG-4 Part 10 video compression standard which has become pervasive since its adoption by Apple, Sony, Nokia and the Blu-ray Disc Association. The quality level rose abruptly (MPEG-2 / 720×576 / around 2500 kbit/s) and we did that for years until H264 came. Then we acquired a DVD burner and shortly after we were producing our own DVDs. Watching Anya discovering the world for the first time is what is important! ![]() Of course, the quality is not great (MPEG-1 / 352×288 / 1150 kbit/s) but we personally do not care. ![]() Initially we only had one way to archive the movies: on VCD (No! Not DVD!) The reason is that we didn’t have DVD burners then. ![]() Like most (technology-oriented) parents, Christina and I have recorded hours and hours of Digital Video (DV) of Anya and Kyan growing and we’re still doing it now.ĭigital Video (DV) requires a lot of space (of the order of 15Gb per hour!) Consequently, we edited the raw footage like mad and discarded all the crap to come up with beautiful movies (for us at least - I guess that most of you will fall asleep if you were ever subjected to them…)
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