Re: Scanning only goes so far.

On 09/23/12 23:44, Andy Civil wrote:
> On 2012-09-23 11:08 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
>
>> ...  Hey I know one guy who has his data in his
>> own cloud with servers at his office and at a cooperating organization
>> in another city ( He keeps a copy of the other outfits data in case they
>> loose theirs)
>
> It's funny you bring that up - I'm on a photography forum and they occasionally
> chat about the issue of backup. It seems the perfect solution to find a trusted,
> like-minded professional and 'swap' off-site backup like this. I wonder if
> there's a program for it; I know you could use a regular backup program and run
> a FTP server for your client to connect to you. Even better, combine the
> technologies of RAID and bit-torrent and make your own 'cloud' with friends, to
> make it resilient with one extra 'parity' copy, and invisible (runs in the
> background)... ah, I can dream!
>
>> Better yet, Scan at the highest resolution possible and write out to
>> 35mm separations on Fuji Archival separation film., BUT keep the
>> originals...
>
> Yeah, these movies are VHS-C and MiniDV though... LOL
>
> --
> Andy
>

I remember this quote from a while ago:
  "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important 
stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
     -Linus Torvalds (1996-07-20)

Please don't forget to encrypt your stuff before backing up to a third 
party that you do not completely trust.   This should, of course, be 
plainly obvious.

Cheers!
-phil
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