This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] backing up each day

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] backing up each day

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On Jun 11, 2014, at 1:11 PM, "Steve Hullfish steve4lists@veralith.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Thank you all. rsync was going to be our back up idea. In other words, our plan B - not "back up" - well, actually our plan b FOR Back up.

Steve

On Jun 11, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Michael Brockington brocking@sfu.ca [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Carbon Copy Cloner, as mentioned, which is a front-end for rsync -- they do checksumming. CCC can be scheduled if you want to automate it to run in the middle of the night, for instance.

Shotput Pro won't work for this application -- it only copies complete folders. It won't do the incremental backup you're looking for.

Cheers,
--Michael

On 2014-06-11, 9:22 AM, Steve Hullfish steve4lists@veralith.com [Avid-L2] wrote:

Anyone have any thoughts on this idea?

I want to make a new numbered file folder inside the Avid MediaFiles folder>MXF folder for every day of a project. That probably means 30 numbered folders inside the MXF folder. (I've never had more than about 6.)

Then I want to get a software utility that will back up JUST the new footage every night from one USB3 external drive to a second USB3 external drive. (We are also backing up camera media via ShotPut to LTO daily.)

What will copy media between the drives (obviously we can do this at the finder level) and also do checksums? I see that Imagine Products has a thing called ShotSum that does check summing but not the copying.

I own ShotPut, but that's really for camera cards going to multiple drives with checksumming... Has anyone used it to go drive to drive?

Steve