Newbie Q: camcorder as a backup device?
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From: Al <ala...@aj...> - 2000-04-07 17:51:22
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Hi, I'm a newbie here so apologies if this is really stupid :-) Just got a D-Link DFW500 1394 card that I'm planning to install this weekend, it's allegedly OHCI compliant so I hope that'll be painless, but if anyone has specific tips I'd welcome them. Here's the question: is anyone doing anything along the lines of using a DV-capable camcorder as a backup device for regular files? Do camcorders care what the data looks like (so long as its within DV-format frames)? (More specifically, does the Sony TRV-103 D8 camera care?) The backup/restore program would have to encapsulate filesystem datat within DV frames, which would display as so much noise if anyone tried to watch it I guess, but it'd be nice to be able to use my camcorder as a high-capacity/high-data-rate backup device (sure, I'd rather have purpose-built hardware for the job, but that stuff ain't cheap.) If there's interest and nobody is doing anything on it, I may tackle it myself (unless someone points out serious flaws in the idea), but I have precious little available time at the moment. -- Al (Yet another off-the-wall idea: is TCP/IP-over-1394 possible? Not quite gigabit ethernet, but cheaper). |