![]() ![]() Well, let me just say that it did its job. You know, the one that’s been backing up Lucy every night. But it gets worse.Īfter a week or so, someone in IT decides to have a look at the nameless back-up server. Well that’s not going to help! Someone else does a spot check of files remaining in their original folders. There are thousands of orphaned files including several hundred named “000000.MTS”. They suggest we designate one person to go through the files to identify them. IT gets Lucy back up and tells us that the recovery process has resulted in some files appearing in a “Lost and Found” folder. Life goes on but we don’t yet realize the scope of the problem. She’s down and we have to make due with stupid little cheap external hard drives. And… Lucy experiences a catastrophic failure. ![]() It’s the end of the academic year, all of the computers are full to overflowing with raw files and we need a few hundred gig to cover the weekend’s events. Here the “laziness” factor enters into the equation.įast forward to May, just before Commencement. This made us a little less fanatical about cleaning SD cards until at least 24 hours after a shoot. We had one drive failure two years ago that resulted in the loss of half a day of shooting because the drive failed before the back-up was complete (but after the SD cards had been cleaned). Lucy had 20 terabytes of space and was backed up nightly to a nameless back-end server.įor three years or more we chugged along putting all of our raw footage, final masters and occasional project files on Lucy trusting that it was being backed up every night. Fortunately, the entire Library was backed-up and in a couple of weeks it had been rebuilt on to a dedicated server called “Lucy”. Oh how I miss it! After Apple abandoned it we limped along for a year for or so but the inevitable crash finally came. It was never great and often frustrating. Nothing! But multiple, stupid little cheap external hard drives are at least under our control.ĭedicated servers managed by incompetent idiots.ĭon’t trust your media to incompetent idiots (but how can you tell?)Īs you might recall, I had the great misfortune to use the Final Cut Server (maintained by our IT department) for a couple of years. Multiple, stupid little cheap external hard drives and ccasionally SD cards.Ī dedicated server of 20 terabytes backed-up nightly by our IT department. * How are you storing your media and projects now? To keep upbeat, I’ve named my current archival method: “Laziness and Dumb Luck.” Unfortunately, my answers are not very encouraging we just lost over 5 years of tapeless media files. I thought I’d weigh in on your questions about long-term, archival storage. How are you storing your media and projects now?.Last week, I asked readers to share their experiences with archiving by answering four questions: I’ve written a lot about archiving our media and projects for the long-term. ![]()
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