We do a lot of video and film and that requires massive amounts of drive space to store edited footage in a useable format.
The backup solution has been this:
A pair of G5 towers at the front end. Each has a pair of 250 gig drives fir a total of 1TB of 'active space.
Machine A is used to import and adjust all footage i.e. log and capture. It is then copied to Machine B for the production period; usually a week to a month. A firewire Lacie external 250 runs a really simple backup program every night called Silverkeeper.
It does an exact bit to bit backup of everything in the 'Projects' folder.
When a project is signed off, A is erased then B is erased only after all data is stored on the Lacie. 2 final DVDs are moved offsite with the original DV tapes, the Lacie is unplugged and shelved... A new Lacie takes it's place and all is well.
Short of a fire, I believe this is a 100% safe, fairly inexpensive solution.
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I may be oversimplifying this but here's my take.
We do a lot of video and film and that requires massive amounts of drive space to store edited footage in a useable format.
The backup solution has been this:
A pair of G5 towers at the front end. Each has a pair of 250 gig drives fir a total of 1TB of 'active space.
Machine A is used to import and adjust all footage i.e. log and capture.
It is then copied to Machine B for the production period; usually a week to a month. A firewire Lacie external 250 runs a really simple backup program every night called Silverkeeper.
It does an exact bit to bit backup of everything in the 'Projects' folder.
When a project is signed off, A is erased then B is erased only after all data is stored on the Lacie.
2 final DVDs are moved offsite with the original DV tapes, the Lacie is unplugged and shelved...
A new Lacie takes it's place and all is well.
Short of a fire, I believe this is a 100% safe, fairly inexpensive solution.
Anything I might be missing?