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

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] backing up each day

Steve,

What's your rationale for having 30 numbered folders inside your MXF folder? It sounds like unneeded complexity, and it's not obvious that there's any advantage. How are you going to guarantee that all your renders go into the correct folder of the day; or if not, are you OK with new mediafiles going into the "wrong" folder for the day?

I'm managing the post right now on a sizable project - our primary Avid has 24TB of local storage plus an 18TB NAS via ethernet. I do an incremental backup weekly, using FreeFileSync:

http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/

Given that you can sync your source drive to your backup drive (i.e. copy new files; overwrite older versions of files; delete obsolete files) what advantage does your "numbered folder" scheme have?

Cheers,

Wilson

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Steve Hullfish steve4lists@veralith.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> 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