[RNLD] data recovery options

[Peter Austin]

Like Claire I have 3 or 4 backups of important stuff -- I use 2 hard
drives, Dropbox, and Carbonite (a paid backup service that is constantly
trickling backups to the cloud whenever I am on line) as well as SSD
storage (cards, memory sticks). You also need a good backup routine and
lots of discipline.

In addition to backup you should have an archiving strategy and be
archiving materials (with relevant metadata) on an ongoing basis.

As I tell my students, you WILL lose data at some point in your work --
it's a question of managing (and minimising) how much you lose.

Peter

On Thursday, 13 September 2012, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Without wishing to hijack this thread, I'd be interested in how many
> backups people on the list tend to have for their field notes and
> tapes. I have a minimum of 4 (but I am obsessive about these things) -
> two hard drives, a set of DVDs, and everything is deposited with
> AIATSIS. Some trips also have CDs or another set of DVDs which I
> mailed to my parents, and one set is also deposited with ELAR. My
> biggest problem is finding different locations to store the physical
> backups in.
> Claire
>

-- 
Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Director, Endangered Languages Academic Programme
Research Tutor and PhD Convenor
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

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