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Data shuffling
Nov. 8th, 2008 01:47 pmThere is much data moving around here today.
A new 1TB drive is installed inside my machine, and I'm still dragging captured home video, 10 GB chunks at a time, from all sorts of places I've stashed it at here and there over the years.
Another 1TB drive is sitting in the docking station, and after a lot of hunting about, well, guess what, the tool I want to back it up with is...rsync. Just can't beat the classics. There were a lot of tools around to do the same thing, but none that I can KNOW what they're doing, and trust that they're doing it right, quite like rsync. I wound up with cwRsync - it's got its cygwin layers wrapped right in so I don't have to futz around with that.
I'm moving the primary film (scanned negatives and digital photos) directory also to the TB drive, it's the "media" drive now I guess. I'm also putting "my documents" there. Since it'll be the drive that I'm most militant about copying to offsite storage, it makes sense to put those things there.
I'm also getting ready to capture all the camcorder tapes that I have to AVI/DV format. There are probably 30 tapes in either Hi8, 8, or MiniDV format. The non-DV ones I'll stream through the old Canon ZR camcorder, which can do streaming conversion. It's just a carcass, the tape mechanism is long since dead, but the parts are still there and still do streaming conversion.
When I'm done I'll probably have the TB drive half full, but I'll feel a lot better about the state of my data and backups, and with all that video available and the hard part of getting it off tape done, I might actually do something with it.
A new 1TB drive is installed inside my machine, and I'm still dragging captured home video, 10 GB chunks at a time, from all sorts of places I've stashed it at here and there over the years.
Another 1TB drive is sitting in the docking station, and after a lot of hunting about, well, guess what, the tool I want to back it up with is...rsync. Just can't beat the classics. There were a lot of tools around to do the same thing, but none that I can KNOW what they're doing, and trust that they're doing it right, quite like rsync. I wound up with cwRsync - it's got its cygwin layers wrapped right in so I don't have to futz around with that.
I'm moving the primary film (scanned negatives and digital photos) directory also to the TB drive, it's the "media" drive now I guess. I'm also putting "my documents" there. Since it'll be the drive that I'm most militant about copying to offsite storage, it makes sense to put those things there.
I'm also getting ready to capture all the camcorder tapes that I have to AVI/DV format. There are probably 30 tapes in either Hi8, 8, or MiniDV format. The non-DV ones I'll stream through the old Canon ZR camcorder, which can do streaming conversion. It's just a carcass, the tape mechanism is long since dead, but the parts are still there and still do streaming conversion.
When I'm done I'll probably have the TB drive half full, but I'll feel a lot better about the state of my data and backups, and with all that video available and the hard part of getting it off tape done, I might actually do something with it.
