Back Up Elections and Strategies

David Saraceno

David Saraceno

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We are now starting to accumulate a bunch of footage.

I'm wondering how people are pursuing back ups of the p2 folders.

We usually copy over, and rename them.

Are you using firewire drives and doing redundant backups

external SATA drives

or the slow and expensive DL DVD backups

or something similar?

We are looking at bare SATA drives with a controller, and then a wiebetech drive dock for quick connections. No need for external cases

Then stored in a static free bag.
 
I would look into raid drives.

Two raid HDs on set creating a redundant back up. One goes to storage when its complete. Create DVD backups as time permits.

Once the film is finished copy all files and used footage over to a single drive and store it (maybe a wiebtech drive in dock like you said)...make DVD back ups if necessary. I would get a drive with enough space to hold only that project.

Erase the other two Raids and set them back into the field.

Just one idea...haven't really done it this way yet.
 
What was your means of aquisition.? David S.
I shoot my stuff on one 4Gb card which i then either capture to a computer with an NLE if possible- although i have found it easy to use either Toast or Disk Image utility to make an image file backup that burns easily and economically friendly to a DVD-R.
And I just ordered a Magic box that I can dump my card to in the field but even then it will be in DVD size increments. But if you have 8 gig cards you can use Split&Concat to break the 8GB dump into DVD sized increments.
But thats just the poor mans route of proper archiving. lol
go with some superfast + portable eSata drives if you got the cash to throw around
 
We have one 8 Gb and two 4 Gbs.

The 4 Gbs can be easily backed up, but the 8Gb require slow burning on more pricey DL DVD discs.
 
Just one thing to note: RAID is NOT a back-up. It protects against drive failure, but will do absolutely nothing to protect against a file becoming corrupted.

RAID is convenient and allows you to keep running with one drive down, but it doesn't replace the need for backups.
 
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