Backing Up Media
Hello
I'm not sure if this question can be answered here. I've already posted a similar question on the hardware forum; I'm an experienced FC user who believes in backing up media on a regular basis. I use 'Super Duper' usually with good results. I always use external drives, (several), for scratch disk and related media files. I do not 'Daisy Chain' & all drives have been formatted properly. I use 'Disk Warrior' for maintenance - I work in Tiger 10.4.11 - please see other stats.
I recently discovered deleted media files that were more than likely corrupted or deleted from poor communication using a Firmtek/SATA2ME4E. Why have I concluded this? Because the missing files were captured and stored (via this SATA card), and later backed up using the same SATA card. I back up using 'smart update' in Super Duper which looks for differences in the data, then backs them up. So unfortunately I backed up the file directory with the deleted files not knowing these files were missing until I tried to open a FC project.
How do I avoid this in the future? I guess one way is to check all files to see if anything is missing before back up. But this also seems like a rather lengthy process considering all the data I have stored.
I don't see any discrepancies/deletions/corruptions in the other files that are connected thru 800FW connections. I realize the Firmtek/SATA2ME4E card gets good ratings, and SATA is faster, but I don't know if I can trust this particular Firmtek/SATA2ME4E. I may replace it with another FW800 multiport.
Just wondering if anyone else has another idea to prevent this from happening again.
Thanx
I'm not sure if this question can be answered here. I've already posted a similar question on the hardware forum; I'm an experienced FC user who believes in backing up media on a regular basis. I use 'Super Duper' usually with good results. I always use external drives, (several), for scratch disk and related media files. I do not 'Daisy Chain' & all drives have been formatted properly. I use 'Disk Warrior' for maintenance - I work in Tiger 10.4.11 - please see other stats.
I recently discovered deleted media files that were more than likely corrupted or deleted from poor communication using a Firmtek/SATA2ME4E. Why have I concluded this? Because the missing files were captured and stored (via this SATA card), and later backed up using the same SATA card. I back up using 'smart update' in Super Duper which looks for differences in the data, then backs them up. So unfortunately I backed up the file directory with the deleted files not knowing these files were missing until I tried to open a FC project.
How do I avoid this in the future? I guess one way is to check all files to see if anything is missing before back up. But this also seems like a rather lengthy process considering all the data I have stored.
I don't see any discrepancies/deletions/corruptions in the other files that are connected thru 800FW connections. I realize the Firmtek/SATA2ME4E card gets good ratings, and SATA is faster, but I don't know if I can trust this particular Firmtek/SATA2ME4E. I may replace it with another FW800 multiport.
Just wondering if anyone else has another idea to prevent this from happening again.
Thanx
Dual Core 2.0 G5: 8 Gigs RAM - Geforce 7800GT, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Older G5 1.8 Single 5 Gigs Ram Radeon 9800 Pro (System Back Up)