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Here is a plan I have devised for a DMT job where we will only be able to use laptops on set and the kit must be pretty small and fast.
As for the plan, I am trying to stay very portable and as such I want to be based off of a laptop for the majority of the shoot. My plan is to use a Macbook Pro to transfer footage to while on location every day to a 2 hard drive system that will be in a hot swap RAID case through an esata express card adapter. One HDD will be a 1TB or possibly 2TB drive that will contain one copy of the footage up to the amount that fills the drive and then we will move on through as many drives as we need in sequence. The other drive will be a transfer drive that we will have 4 of and we will bring back and forth with me every day to the hotel or base to be downloaded to a 6 - 2TB drive RAID5 (10TB total after RAID5 loss of one drive). This way there will always be two drives with the data on them at any one time until the data gets to the RAID5 that I would like to set up in the office/base. That transfer drive will go back to the field the next day or day after that after transferring over night with checksum sequences in use.
To simplify:
Data from RED Drive, CF Card, RED RAM gets transferred simultaneously to a large, single backup drive and a smaller faster transfer drive on set by MBP. There will also be visual verification by playing the clips on by one.
The transfer drive gets carried to the base where it is downloaded with checksum to a Mac Pro with 10TB RAID5. Here the rushes and syncing will be done.
When full the individual 2TB drives from set will be stored elsewhere as a backup.
In this way we will have 1 RAID5 master drive that editing can be done off of and if one drive fails we just pop in another one and rebuild it at any time. The backup will consist of the non-raided individual 2TB drives.
What do you guys think about this approach?
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Justin McAleece
http://www.redonerental.net
Justin@BLAREMedia.net
As for the plan, I am trying to stay very portable and as such I want to be based off of a laptop for the majority of the shoot. My plan is to use a Macbook Pro to transfer footage to while on location every day to a 2 hard drive system that will be in a hot swap RAID case through an esata express card adapter. One HDD will be a 1TB or possibly 2TB drive that will contain one copy of the footage up to the amount that fills the drive and then we will move on through as many drives as we need in sequence. The other drive will be a transfer drive that we will have 4 of and we will bring back and forth with me every day to the hotel or base to be downloaded to a 6 - 2TB drive RAID5 (10TB total after RAID5 loss of one drive). This way there will always be two drives with the data on them at any one time until the data gets to the RAID5 that I would like to set up in the office/base. That transfer drive will go back to the field the next day or day after that after transferring over night with checksum sequences in use.
To simplify:
Data from RED Drive, CF Card, RED RAM gets transferred simultaneously to a large, single backup drive and a smaller faster transfer drive on set by MBP. There will also be visual verification by playing the clips on by one.
The transfer drive gets carried to the base where it is downloaded with checksum to a Mac Pro with 10TB RAID5. Here the rushes and syncing will be done.
When full the individual 2TB drives from set will be stored elsewhere as a backup.
In this way we will have 1 RAID5 master drive that editing can be done off of and if one drive fails we just pop in another one and rebuild it at any time. The backup will consist of the non-raided individual 2TB drives.
What do you guys think about this approach?
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Justin McAleece
http://www.redonerental.net
Justin@BLAREMedia.net