Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 04:54 AM

If you keep stuff on your hard disk, BACK IT UP!! And keep hard copy in a separate place. One day your hard disk will crash or someone will steal your computer or your house wil burn down ... Heaven forbid, but it might happen (esp. the first two!)

Commercial outfits of all kinds (not just musicial ones!) have a "disaster plan": what if the firm gets burgled/attacked by terrorists/set alight/crashed on by an aircraft/flooded/struck by lightning? You back evertyhing up REGULARLY and keep the backups on site in a fireproof safe AND off site in a secure place.

You can get software cheap enough, or just do it off your own bat: keep TWO lots; do each once a fortnight on alternate weeks ... that way, even if one backup gets destroyed, you have no more than two week's stuff to replace.

Steve

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 01:00 AM

This reminds me that on a genealogy list I am on it was mentioned to assign someone to take care of any family tree information you may have in your posession. Our music files represent countless hours of collection, research and joy! Yes a good idea to specify that is get
saved for the future!

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 12:13 AM

Ah, Gargoyle, what a mix of wisdom, wit, and waste.

American Memory

Candian Special Collections Libraries

Repositories of Primary Resources from the University of Idaho.

SRS

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: Deckman
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 09:14 PM

JOHN ROSS!!!! Where are you. You need to plug into this thread. Bob

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 09:11 PM

Find out where the local techies buy their gear. 6 Months ago I gor a new Western Digital 160 G drive for a little over US$120. That's a lot of music.

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 09:07 PM

now that disk drives are so powerful, (based on one of the first commercial uses of nano-technology), it is possible to have files backed up redundantly...like CDs, and on a secondary (slave) HD, either in the computer or stand-alone. I don't have much that is 'crucial', but as soon as possible, I intend to get a 2nd drive for storage and safety.

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 08:57 PM

I have nothing on my computer...it's all hard copy now. And that, my books and instruments have been instructed to go to the local library or to someone who will play them. None of my family/kids are interested.

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: M.Ted
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 08:41 PM

I am not so worried about the stuff on the computer, which is backed up, and can be accessed by pretty much anyone just clicking on it--I am concerned about the boxes and files and drawers full of cassettes, tape reels, notebooks, random sheets of paper, and scribbled envelope backs from before the time when it was easy to turn everything into a wordprocessor document or a soundfile--I've already lost a lot of stuff--

Subject: RE: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 12:59 PM

"If anything were to happen to you"

If?

You mean, 'when', right?

A good idea though...

Subject: Who Will Conserve Your Music Files?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 12:51 PM

If anything were to happen to you, have you identified someone who would come commandeer your computer and be sure all the music material you've saved onto it is preserved and hopefully passed along to others? If so, how do you have this set up? Two Mudcatters have agreed to share this task for me. No I won't tell who-- or everyone will lean on them! :~)

Are these services commercially available? Would that be "enough" for your stash, or would it still need some further attention to make the most out of what you have stowed "down cellar"?

What backing up conventions would you recommend to make this job easier than it would otherwise be?

What is the simplest way to do backups of this magnitude now that archive folders would be too bulky for CD storage?

~Susan