Archiving on DVD

[PaulBusta]

Half full ofcourse.

[TimKennelly]

I don't think anyone reasonably expects to keep a technical archive method viable for 100 years, but one certainly wants the archive media to still be functional when they do decide to transfer it to the next medium and that is what this is meant to do.

As for tape, I would agree that digital tape is a solid media archive choice, albeit it certainly has it's shortcomings and vulnerabilities as well and if we are talking about pure archiving footage (as in Disk Transfer versus tape) I believe tape is the hands down winner for long temr storage.

The primary limitation of tape is you do not have the capability of archving your DVD authoring (aka: menu structure), so archiving to the Gold archival DVD gives you far, far better convenience for "making future copies".

[JohnKleban]

I keep a back-up copy of all my productions on minidv as well as one DVD set (for demo use and/or to duplicate it if the client needs another copy down the road). For photos and other computer related stuff, I use my notebook drive, then back-up to two external Seagate drives and burn a copy of family photos to DVD-R. Every so often, a good idea to check these back-up sources, and in a few years time, back them up again to new drives. I also keep multiple sets of photo DVD-Rs discs at my parent's house and my in-laws also have a set; although come to think of it, they are over-due for a new updated set of discs that has more recent images added.

John