after I complete a project and have it safely on DVD, is there a way to store it (whitout gobbling up tons of space), so IF needed in the future it would be easy to retrieve the entire project .
thanks
bob s
archiving project ????
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I do all of my editing in a disk partition i.e. nothing else there bar my VS 8 files - including the project file. After completing the DVD I then use Norton Ghost to create a backup of the entire partition i.e. it allows archival to span multiple DVD's. You can later restore either the entire archive or individual files.
Another such tool is True Image for Windows - this is shareware and whilst I haven't used it I have read excellent reports of its functionality and support. Plus you can try before you buy
The advantage to using True Image for Windows over Norton Ghost (don't buy the latest Ghost - I have heard of a lot of troubles with it) is that you can archive whilst running windows. The Norton Ghost I use (2003) forces the computer to re-boot and runs the archive process as a stand-alone process - thus tieing up the computer for some period of time
The current version of Norton Ghost (v9.0) is based on a product called Drive Image (Symantec purchased another company and gained access to the product). I used Drive Image and found that it produced disc images that were unusable about 2 out of 3 times - not much point in doing an archive if you can't trust the results!
Personally I prefer to archive to DVD because:
a) DVD discs are much cheaper than mini-DV tape; and
b) after experiencing audio/video sync problems when capturing from mini-DV I don't 100% trust using a "record back to camera" as an archival mechanism
Another such tool is True Image for Windows - this is shareware and whilst I haven't used it I have read excellent reports of its functionality and support. Plus you can try before you buy
The advantage to using True Image for Windows over Norton Ghost (don't buy the latest Ghost - I have heard of a lot of troubles with it) is that you can archive whilst running windows. The Norton Ghost I use (2003) forces the computer to re-boot and runs the archive process as a stand-alone process - thus tieing up the computer for some period of time
The current version of Norton Ghost (v9.0) is based on a product called Drive Image (Symantec purchased another company and gained access to the product). I used Drive Image and found that it produced disc images that were unusable about 2 out of 3 times - not much point in doing an archive if you can't trust the results!
Personally I prefer to archive to DVD because:
a) DVD discs are much cheaper than mini-DV tape; and
b) after experiencing audio/video sync problems when capturing from mini-DV I don't 100% trust using a "record back to camera" as an archival mechanism