Re: [ARSCLIST] Digital AUdio File Backups

[anthony_tadey <anthony_tadey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One quick comment to think about,

Be aware many "Red Book" players/decoders will have or allow for
interpolation.  Consider this into your specific preservation needs if you
are considering archiving using a redbook standard.

Tony



On 7/18/08 1:44 PM, "Wasserman, Robert A - WHS"
<Robert.Wasserman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In our planning over the last few years, we have always produced at
> least one backup of every digital file we produced. At first, this was a
> second gold CDR when we were only using a pro CDR burner for archiving.
> Now with Pro Tools, we currently have the BWAV files on an external
> Lacie hard drive, a server, and the server is backed up to tape.
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> We were recently told by IT here that we may lose our space on the
> server and our hard drives are also getting full soon. So here are my
> questions:
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> 1: What good or bad experiences have people had with extracting digital
> audio files from server backup tapes?
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> 2: Assuming a digital audio file made it onto more than one backup tape
> (stored in different locations) before being taken off a server, can we
> trust these multiple backup tapes as our ONLY copies?
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> 3: What is the guideline these days on digital audio file backups? Is
> having 2 copies, one on a server, one that is backed up to tape enough?
> Should we keep a gold CDR/DVDR even with the other 2 copies existing?
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> 4:Now that people have been using gold CDR's for awhile now, has anyone
> lost a file on a gold CDR due to scratches or other damage, and having a
> backup CDR would have or did solve this file problem?
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> Thanks for your responses.
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> Robert Wasserman
> Robert.Wasserman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <blocked::mailto:Robert.Wasserman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sound Archives Proj. Asst./Lead Tech.
> Wisconsin Historical Society
> 608-264-6473
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