> I have around 4.5GB of photos from the past few years on my hard disk. I > have all of these as albums in digikam. I am thinking of saving these on > to a DVD and freeing up the space from my hard disk. I was wondering of > anyone has any suggestions on how best to do this. Should I just dump > the directories (that correspoond to each album in digikam) on to the > DVD? Should I include the .db files as well which are presumably used by > digikam? Or is there any other option which I do not know about yet?
Picasa has a nice feature where it keeps track of which images you've burned to CD. digikam doesn't have such a feature, but I filed a bug requesting it a long time ago, and I hope they add it before 1.0. However, digikam is able to export images to thumbnailed HTML galleries. Unfortunately it doesn't support spanning multiple CDs, but since you're using a DVD, that shouldn't matter. For my own long-term archiving of digital photos, I bought a box of Mitsui Gold CD-R's. These are rated for 100 years in controlled environments. Whether or not they'll hold up that long...well, I'll let you know in a hundred years. :) I also use Duplicity to backup to a Dreamhost account, which gets them off-site. I use SSH's rate limit to keep it from interfering with normal Internet usage, so it takes a few hours to run new backups. If I need to backup several gigs, the backup might take a couple days, or I could just remove the rate limit temporarily. Oh, and I use backupninja's rdiff-backup to backup to a second hard disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
