Very interesting piece of Mac software...

[mcv]

DV Backup its called;
This utility contains a GUI application which converts a file containing
data to be backed up, e.g. a stuffit or tar file, into DV format to be
transferred to a camcorder. It is an evolution of the above original
application and allows the use of iMovie to be avoided. Version 0.2 is a newly-
developed Cocoa GUI which brings in many new features. Please read the notes in the readme file before using it.


NOTES FROM THE README FILE (The good stuff:
DV Backup

DV Backup is a Cocoa (native to MacOS X) application which allows you to use a standard DV or Digital8 camcorder as a data backup device. Many computer users own CD writers but hard drive sizes have now increased to a point that the notion of backing up data to CDROM has become impractical for many. DVD provides a more feasible alternative to CD and the necessary hardware and media are becoming increasingly accessible, but it is still expensive as are the other high capacity data archiving alternatives. This is where DV Backup comes in.

Since many Mac users own digital camcorders it makes perfect sense to double the gains of that investment and use the camera as a data backup device as well as for video stuff. Hence DV Backup was born in early 2001 and since then I have been successfully using my camcorder to backup my Mac's hard drive and restore the data when necessary. I now have added a GUI to the core code and feel it is time to share this application with the wider Mac OS X community.

The DV tape format provides a video capacity of about 10GB per hour of tape. The (recommended) use of data protection through duplication, as provided by DV Backup, will half that capacity. Nonetheless it still provides more space than a standard DVD-R disc, and more cheaply too in media cost terms. Note DV Backup does not attempt to use the DV audio tracks to hold data. If it were to, the tape capacity would be increased only by about 700MB, or 6%. Ordinary attempts to try and use this space have proven fruitless and it seems like a lot of hard work for little gain.

Platform Requirements

A Macintosh with a Firewire port running OS X 10.2 or greater (10.1 may work too), and a DV or Digital8 camcorder with a Firewire port supporting both DV-in and DV-out.

My camera was able to save files (supposedly) but I was unable to retrieve the files I saved?

Try your own luck:
http://web.onetel.net.uk/%7Etghewett1/macdownloads.htm

-MCV

[digitaldave]

Very interesting.

Thanks for posting this.

[WeedVender]

score 1 for macs