Dixer
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What do people use for insurance on FCP, i.e. back up plans? Anybody use Raid arrays or anything of that nature? Looking for advice/suggestions.
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another thing that's absolutely critical is your backup routine. there's no point overwriting the same data every night only to discover later that you need to restore something from two days ago...
ideally you want 4 nightly backups, 3 weekly backups and 12 monthly backups.
so you'd go
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week1
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Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week3
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Month1
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week1
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week2
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week3
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Month2
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week1
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week2
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week3
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Month3
Mon Tues Weds Thurs Week1
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etc
the problem is that "proper" backup stuff (your arcserves & commvaults) is expensive. very expensive. A guy i work with recommends Bacula but i've no idea what it's like.
If you can't / don't want to go with a dedicated backup application, then a few external drives (1Terabyte with firewire, USB & gigabit ethernet for 350 quid? Or a couple of 500gb models for extra resilience for 170 quid each?) and a well organised, well documented and well observed backup plan should do the trick.
Seems like a lot of hassle for a video project where the most important "data" resides on tape and a couple of kb's worth of a project file.
Even in TV or Film projects, the projects are consolodated/ deleted at a regular basis as uncompressed video takes up shitloads of space.
The project file is king.
Traditionally...
You first cut is an off line edit where you digitize your footage at a very low data rate. Hence more footage taking up less space. (This was when the SCUZZY drive was king of the video world.)
Your tapes were then archived. (preferably in a fireproof type of enviroment)
You worked on your 1:15 resolution cut. finished. deleted the entire media from your drives. Project file intact, you redigitized the chosen shots back again from your tapes at full resolution and THEN playout to tape. This is the online edit.
So really you only need to take in full resolution data when your finished editing (If your doing things properly)... Hence, back to my original point of: Tape and Project file are king
Ah an offline edit, I haven't done one of those for ages.
Just out of curiosity, what exactly are you doing? Is it personal, business, small business, enterprise? The larger you get the more you need to manage the data, and track the metadata, so complexity arises not in storage but in management. If you are doing something on a large scale, I might be able to suggest a few methods and bits of software/hardware to handle it all.
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