There's got to be a better way to do this!

Deuceofspades

Deuceofspades

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Hi guys,

I am trying to be really gooooood at backing up all my footage so I don't end up losing 2 years worth of work (and an entire full feature period film)in a harddrive crash or virus attack.

Each of my 1 TB drive has it's own duplicate.

Currently I am backing files up manually (drag and drop from one drive to the twin drive) and there are SO MANY FOLDER AND FILES that although the initial backing up of a file, (right after a new scene has been shot) is a breeze, keeping up with updates is NOT.

Need a software (preferably not too expensive or better yet: free) that will COMPARE my files and only back up the NEW files / updates. Since, everytime I fine tune my edits, I save the edits under a new name (ex: SCENE ONE edit 1 / then 2 / then 3 etc...), it will work for me.

What software do you recommend that I can TRUST will do an accurate job at replicating the drive and only updating what has changed since the last replication?

THANK YOU,

Your devoted vegas user. :)
 
I'd rather have a user recommend something he/she has been using and is HAPPY with - cause I don't want to be the guinea pig for someone's software and find out (the hard way) it wasn't really reliable.

Can anyone recommend something?
 
Unfortunately, I am in the same boat as you, and manually move stuff to my raid. I would like a secondary raid to back that stuff to, in the event the first one goes down. Had that happen once, lost everything.
 
You might want to consider a tape-drive backup solution, such as HP's LTO Ultrium system. While not cheap, $3000 US, this is really the only efficient way to back up a raid 0 array of 3 TB or more. When you think about the replacement value of your content, the price comes into line as good insurance.

Each tape holds 800 GB and you can opt for a tape loader to fully automate the process. Saves your apps too, you can boot from tape and restore to a clean raid array.

I have this on e-commerce server at work, but you can add it to the 5 1/2" bay of an existing graphics workstaton. It will do initial full backup, then "incremental" of files modified since last backup.

Try www.hp.com or google "HP tape drives." There are other makes, Quantum is a good one, check newegg or TigerDirect.

Cheers :beer: Jeff
 
If the hard drives are truly identical copies of each other, then all you need to do is save the project file (the VEG file) in the same place on both.
 
I have the same setup, each hard drive has an exact duplicate that I unplug and store away from the machine. If a lightning strike should destroy the entire computer, my backup drives are safe.

I explored backup software (Acronis TrueImage, Norton Ghost, Nero BackItUp) which can do incremental or differential backups to save what's changed since the last full backup. However, they store everything in a single huge compressed file, in a proprietary format.
Although you can use the software to select individual files to restore, I am really not comfortable having my data locked away and relying on a licensed program to work properly to get my data back.

I simply copy my new footage to the backup drive, so restoring it is just a matter of copying it back any which way I choose. As I make new edits, I copy the .veg files (which are tiny) to a USB flash drive at the end of every editing session. Every few days, I save those to the backup drive. If I render out new audio or video files, I make a note in a text file of New and Changed files, so I know what has to be copied to the backup drive at the end of the session.
 
strangways said:
I have the same setup, each hard drive has an exact duplicate that I unplug and store away from the machine. If a lightning strike should destroy the entire computer, my backup drives are safe.

I explored backup software (Acronis TrueImage, Norton Ghost, Nero BackItUp) which can do incremental or differential backups to save what's changed since the last full backup. However, they store everything in a single huge compressed file, in a proprietary format.
Although you can use the software to select individual files to restore, I am really not comfortable having my data locked away and relying on a licensed program to work properly to get my data back.

I simply copy my new footage to the backup drive, so restoring it is just a matter of copying it back any which way I choose. As I make new edits, I copy the .veg files (which are tiny) to a USB flash drive at the end of every editing session. Every few days, I save those to the backup drive. If I render out new audio or video files, I make a note in a text file of New and Changed files, so I know what has to be copied to the backup drive at the end of the session.
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yeah, that's sort of what i do now and it is excrutiating - there must be a better way to do this :)
 
downloaded syntoy :)

Wow, seems to work like a charm. SO EASY !!!! i am backing up everything again as we speak and it's knowing to only change the files that I altered or added since the last backup.

Way cool, and the price is good too...

FREE :))

Thank you for the tip!
 
Faith,

I've been using it for a few years now, it works great for keeping drives and folder synchronized.

I'm glad it's working well and that I could be of some help to you.

John
 
Faith, you click on Start/Programs/Accesories/Systemprograms/BAckup.

This starts a Wizzard that tells you what to do.

But since you have SyncToy 2.0 now your golden, it does basicly the same but a bit more comfortible.

Frank
 
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