How we copy your drives.
Your archive is probably the only copy of itself. Here is exactly what happens to it, in order, from the day you send it to the day it comes back.
What to send
- Drives
- External and internal hard drives, working or not. A failing drive is the reason to send it, not a reason to wait.
- Cards
- Memory cards that were never cleared. They often hold the only copy of a take.
- Discs
- CDs and DVDs you burned as backups, however old.
- Labeled
- A strip of tape with a rough date or job on each item helps. If nothing is labeled, send it anyway; the catalog sorts it out.
What happens to it
Tell us what you have
Apply first, or write to us. We agree on what you are sending before anything moves, so nothing arrives unexpected and nothing is left behind.
It gets to us at our cost
We collect it from you, or send you prepaid, insured shipping and packing for it. You do not pay to send your own archive.
Two copies before anything is read
The first thing we do is copy every file, byte for byte, to two separate places. Nothing is opened, renamed, sorted or edited before both copies exist.
Every file gets a fingerprint on record
We record a cryptographic hash of every file. It proves the copy is identical to your original, and it lets anyone check that nothing has changed since.
Your drives come back
The media you sent is returned to you, the same way it came, at our cost. We do not keep your originals; we keep the copies.
What you get back
The drives, untouched. We read from them; we never write to them.
The catalog. Every file fingerprinted, described, keyworded and searchable, with the date and camera details it already carried. It is yours to keep whether or not anything ever sells.
The whole archive, any time. Leave on 90 days' notice. Either way you get the complete digitized, cataloged archive and all metadata back, in an open format, at no charge.
Ready when you are. Questions about a specific drive go to snvrk@snvrkotics.com.
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