Compressing and Backing Up

EVERY SUMMER, a quiet spot on the teaching schedule reminds me that I should clean out my stuff, compress things into neat folders, back up work, and make space on my removable drives. I'm down to my last 10 GB on my favourite Iomega USB drive so the month of July has to help me locate at least 300 GB of portable space in my pocket. My problem is that much of 2010 has been recorded in HD minutes. More than 500 GB of video has occupied much of my scratch space. I have to be ruthless about discarding a lot of that footage because I know I won't refer to the video clips for the year ahead. That's actually the issue--carve out what's needed in the two semesters ahead and put the discarded content on a top shelf somewhere. But that's not really a good strategy for me either because all my top shelves are overflowing with sheafs of paper and evidence of good intentions. It's time to get cracking with burning some DVD RW discs with content I intend to use before Christmas 2010.

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"Back up from CD" on Inside View, 20 February 2007.

"Multimedia River of News", 7 September 2006.

"Fragile Digital Archives", August 17, 2003.

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