#Back-Up Systems
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Once again I seek the boundless wisdom of my ASOFT bretheren.
To my own disgrace, I currently have no back-up for my system. Hey,
I complain, the powers that be just don't listen. I'm considering a
harmless "sabotage" to hammer home my point!! Anyway, I primarily
use my system for 3D Studio. I currently have a SCSI-2 SyQuest (88M)
removable for light-weight backup, but that's nowhere near adequate.
While we currently don't have a par, we will probably be getting one
soon. Can anyone recommend a solution ? I've heard of "Exabyte" and
Tape back-ups. Please help to see the light!!
Gary,
I'm in a similar situation. I have a Colorado 250 which I mostly avoid
because it's just too small and slow. I just copy important files to
other hardrives.
The best value is probably the DDS-2 DAT drives, claiming a max backup
speed of 88mb/min and capacity of 8-16gb using hardware compression.
Cost about $1k. The Exabyte 8505 is more than double the price and
uses different technology (8mm tape). Capacity is 5-10gb with
hardware compression but the price is $2k. The latter has the
advantage of being used by many Abekas DDR (digital disk recorder)
systems as backups. That gives you the option of being able to send
images to them for highest possible quality output to D1, D2, BetaSP
etc. I've never had a client needing this kind of quality, but then I
don't do much video other than corporate. I'm not sure if you're in
that market.
hope that helps.
Martin
PMJI, but do you who makes DDS-2 DAT drives and how they compare? I am about to
purchase a new system and am still researching which backup is for me.
Thanks,
Chris Barnes
Chris,
DDS-2 DAT drives are sold under lots of labels (Sony, HP, Archive etc). I think
they are probably all the same drive mechanisms.
Gary:
>> backup up system
One thing to check on is what systems are in use by any service
bureaus you use. After investigation this, we went with the Exabyte,
because we found it to be the most compatible with the rest of the
world. If you only need something in-house, this message may be
ignored!