Best way to backup 17gb

asafb wrote on 6/16/2002, 6:29 PM

Okay, my avi is 17gb. This is because i want to use it so i can print to tape to vhs later. Anyway to backup 17gb on a media to give to my client? I don't want to waste my HD.

Winzip perhaps? hehe

Comments

Control_Z wrote on 6/16/2002, 7:34 PM

If this is something you'll need to do a lot of then you have no choice but to go with removable hard drives.

Personally, I'd dump it to tape. Any digital format will store it with no loss.

FadeToBlack wrote on 6/16/2002, 8:04 PM

DougHamm wrote on 6/16/2002, 10:06 PM

If doing it to removable HDD, I'd recommend a USB or firewire external enclosure. Why? There's no guarantee in 2 years that your new editing machine will have internal IDE connectors anymore; new chipsets are coming out with serial-ATA in short order. Just my two cents!

Take care,

-Doug

Costis wrote on 6/17/2002, 7:39 AM

When i Print To Tape and then recapture, and again and again, do i loose quality there?
No effects, just cuts.

Thanks!

RichMacDonald wrote on 6/17/2002, 9:55 AM

I'm assuming you have a CDRW and can handle sitting around and replacing CDs.
1) Use WinRAR to chunk that file into multiple files, each of which can be saved to CD.
2) Use a backup software to archive the file to CDRW. I use Dantz Retrospect, which IMHO is the only backup software worth a darn.

I prefer (2) because it gives you a catalog of everything you have archived. With WinRAR, you have to step through all the CDs to see what you have and where it is stored. With multiple files, that is. Single files won't be a problem.

Whether this is the best way or not is up to you. Personally, I'm sitting on about 200 CDs that I have archived. (Good backups while waiting for a reliable DVD burner.) I can work on other things and do the backup in the background.

SonyDennis wrote on 6/17/2002, 11:04 AM

> When i Print To Tape and then recapture, and again and again, do i loose quality there?
> No effects, just cuts.

No quality loss, it's just bits in that case, moved from your HD to DV tape, and later back.
///d@

jgourd wrote on 6/19/2002, 5:30 AM

I agree. WinRAR is the way to go. I have set up a WinRAR template that makes a self extracting archive and deletes the original as well as locking the archive, adds corruption recovery parity bits, and embeds authenticity information.

Rather than splitting the file at the size of a blank piece of write-once optical media, I split it a one fifth the size of a CD. Once the archive has been created, I use SmartPAR to make a set of external Parity files. I burn the archive and the parity files to the CD-R or DVD-R makingf sure that the Parity files are not all on the same disc.