Quote - I agree, that there is no excuse for NOT having a backup and you're playing with fire if you trust to hardware! It will fail eventually. -AniMajik

Netherworks wrote:

This should be in my signature. :)

I played with fire last year and lost everything in November.  It has taken me months to get back on track and I am still recovering my own work.  The relatively short amount of time I could have spend on backing it up (and I am still a fan of doing it manually and logically) would have saved me MUCH pain.

I have felt your pain myself a few years ago when my client drive took a dive - while I did have the majority of it backed up, it was a pain to recover from that crash!   I just keep SATA drive backup offline and plug them in to my Firewire to SATA adapter when I need something!

If you do the cost of mutiple DVDS (not to mention the time to burn them all!) it becomes more cost effective (and faster) to use an external SATA or USB drive. for back up.  As an editor and mograph guy, I burn thru Gigabytes like no tomorrow :) My large runtimes are a pittaces of what I use in editing, so not having a backup would put me out of business!

-AniMajik

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