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One quick comment to think about, Be aware many "Red Book" players/decoders will have or allow for interpolation. Consider this into your specific preservation needs if you are considering archiving using a redbook standard. Tony On 7/18/08 1:44 PM, "Wasserman, Robert A - WHS" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > In our planning over the last few years, we have always produced at > least one backup of every digital file we produced. At first, this was a > second gold CDR when we were only using a pro CDR burner for archiving. > Now with Pro Tools, we currently have the BWAV files on an external > Lacie hard drive, a server, and the server is backed up to tape. > > > > We were recently told by IT here that we may lose our space on the > server and our hard drives are also getting full soon. So here are my > questions: > > > > 1: What good or bad experiences have people had with extracting digital > audio files from server backup tapes? > > > > 2: Assuming a digital audio file made it onto more than one backup tape > (stored in different locations) before being taken off a server, can we > trust these multiple backup tapes as our ONLY copies? > > > > 3: What is the guideline these days on digital audio file backups? Is > having 2 copies, one on a server, one that is backed up to tape enough? > Should we keep a gold CDR/DVDR even with the other 2 copies existing? > > > > 4:Now that people have been using gold CDR's for awhile now, has anyone > lost a file on a gold CDR due to scratches or other damage, and having a > backup CDR would have or did solve this file problem? > > > > Thanks for your responses. > > > > > > > > > > Robert Wasserman > [log in to unmask] > <blocked::mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Sound Archives Proj. Asst./Lead Tech. > Wisconsin Historical Society > 608-264-6473 > >