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This episode of PhotoGeek’s weekly audio podcast was recorded once again in the offices of Big Trousers.
Just the old team of James and Phil as we apologise for being one day late.
Hosts include Phil Greenwood and James Bellew.
Just some quick notes this week, but we talk briefly about shooting black Lycra in the studio, tough job.
New cameras
Sea Life DC800.
Top 5 selling DSLR’s in America this month.
Class Action lawsuit over Samsung Plasma promotion
PhotoGeek Gadgets
Lowepro Fastpack 350: Combo Laptop-Photo Bag
Samsung Blu Ray BD P1500
Hi Gain Dish adaptor
Pen video camera.
Small Samsung Laser printers.
NIK multimedia Color Efex Pro 3.
Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”
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Backup discussion again! For comparison – something seem easier on a windows machine. I have a machine with an adaptec workstation RAID card providing 1.8TB of RAID 5EE (withstands 2 drive failures) and 200MB/s write speed. Motherboard support eSata so have two 500G drives which will write at 80MB/s eachin IcyDock enclosures so can swap in and out quickly. both system and user files backed up to alternate drives weekly with Ghost. The external drives are also bootable, so if the RAID controller commits harikiri and takes the RAID with it, the reload is just a matter of an alternate boot and Ghost drive restore. It has happened (!) to me so I know the restore works… Daily backups also go to a local NAS and finance files go to an external site via FTP (AES/ Blowfwish encrypted…..). Client files also synchronise daily to laptop and separate network backup. Might sound like overkill, but you need backups both to protect from technology but also user failures! And bitter experience tells me ALL these steps are essential.
Contributed for reference with the “real world” (aka Windows land…
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Thanks for that Rod, I am in the dark when it comes to eSATA and Ghost image and all that Windows stuff.
RAID controllers always worry me and the fact that you have multiple systems is wise.
I will attempt to remember to mention this stuff next week.
We are a little Mac centric but on the back up front but it seems most users are a little apathetic so any discussion is good.
Had a quick look at the DC800 and engadget report that it will retail for $549 (US I assume), here:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/sealife-dc800-underwater-camera-goes-deep-stays-dry/
Another good show, would have liked to have seen more Lycra pics(!)