Ep3: Back it up

Get ready for the digital storage showdown! Nearly everyone has a hard drive horror story. If you listen to this podcast, you won’t be one of them. In this episode we work with Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Silver, two indie podcasters working with the Multitude production collective. We go over the best techniques for backing up files, from hard drives to RAIDs to cloud storage.

Find out more, download our zine, and RSVP to our workshops at preservethispodcast.org.

Get ready for the digital storage showdown! Nearly everyone has a hard drive horror story. If you listen to this podcast, you won’t be one of them. In this episode we work with Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Silver, two indie podcasters working with the Multitude production collective. We go over the best techniques for backing up files, from hard drives to RAIDs to cloud storage.

Find out more, download our zine (p.10), and RSVP to our traveling workshops at preservethispodcast.org.

Spirits podcast
Multitude podcast production company
Horse podcast
Join the Party podcast
Amanda McLoughlin Twitter @shessomicky
Eric Silver Twitter @El_Silvero
"After watching Gothamist and DNAinfo disappear, this journalist built a tool to help others save their own archives". By Kristen Hare, Poytner. November 20, 2017.
"Hurricane Sandy takes data centers offline with flooding, power outages". By Jon Brodkin, ars Technica. October 30, 2012.
"Data Backup Options". By Paul Ruggiero and Matthew A. Heckathorn of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team. 2012.
Seeing Networks mentions where NYC data centers reside
Preserve This Podcast Twitter @preservethispod
Producer + host, Molly Schwartz Twitter @mollyfication
Archivist, Dana Gerber-Margie Twitter @theaudiosignal
Archivist, Mary Kidd Twitter @kiddarchivist

Featuring the following music and sounds:

"Inamorata" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive
"Rodeo Show" by The Green Orbs from the Youtube Audio Library
"Robot counting (Minor drone)" by madnessxd from freesound.org
"Dramatic Organ, A.wav" by InspectorJ from freesound.org
"screaming_woman_horrorII.mp3" by GabrielaUPF from freesound.org
"Key_Chimes_01" by dheming from freesound.org