Not a bad system, it would probably save me some time.BizarreLoveTriangle wrote:I put tags in file names when I add links to the queue. I have a script that moves completed files to right destination directories based on those tags. Eg., for FLM stuff I have a directory /shared/FLM/, which in turn contains a subdirectory for each FLM subforum.
Mine is a doublelayer external but all my archives are single layer burns. If you set up all your burns at once it's pretty efficient: create 50 numbered subdirectories, drag files to be archived on each DVD into them so they are all staged. Then to do the actual burns you number a blank, put it into the burner, drag a subdirectory into Nero, burn and verify (25 mins or so), repeat with next subdirectory until done. A dozen a day. Though I admit by the end it was getting tedious, I will take a break before I do the remaining 350GB.BizarreLoveTriangle wrote:I've still got a single-layer DVD burner only. Can't imagine burning 50 DVDs in a week
The advantage of DVDs to me is while it's more likely I will lose *something* it's much less likely I will lose *everything* in one event. I find I have enough archived that losing a small part of it no longer bothers me as much. The stuff I want the most is still on the hard drive, anyway. And I save the ed2k links for each archived file so I can detect corruption.BizarreLoveTriangle wrote:The other problem is that I am not sure about the lifetime of discs. Even some of my older commercial DVDs have read errors. It would be a nightmare to check hundreds of DVDs regularly.
I have done some Unix work, when interfacing my software to a Unix system. But I've always been primarily a Windows guy, because that's what my employers needed. I do prefer command line stuff though, my preferred script environment is perl (or php which is not command line but is similar programming).BizarreLoveTriangle wrote:You almost sound like a UNIX guy
I started doing this originally but gave it up, too much maintenance and I can always use imdb and google and flm if I want info.BizarreLoveTriangle wrote:I am using similar methods, but some people who want to add cover pics and other info into the DB may need something more sophisticated.