Re: [Debconf-video] Musings on failsafeness. ("did you press record?")
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:07:53 +0200, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 16:07, Herman Robak wrote:
>> Transferring from tape is slooow. We could use a disk on
>> the grabbing computers as backup instead of the tape.
>
> Nope.
>
> The firewire connection to the computer might fail.
Point. r/instead of/in addition to/. Thus, the tape
would be the fallback to the fallback.
> Ideally the camera would run on grid-power but has
> batteries, so that in case of some unplug failure
> the recording doesnt stop.
Alas, my camera doesn't work that way. If the mains
power is connected, it won't use the battery.
Yes, that's stupid. :-(
--
Herman Robak
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