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

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] backing up each day

If you're running in a PC environment I've always used robocopy:
(http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=17657)

It's a dos based command and probably the most complicated on there ever
has been but the command:

robocopy "<originating folder>" "<destination folder>" /e /r:1 /w:1
/a-:a /xd

(use quotes if your paths have spaces in ie. "D:\Avid MediaFiles" rather
than just Avid MediaFiles)

That will initially copy everything, then it will power through the
drive and only copy new stuff.

Works a treat for me, pop it in a batch file and make it a scheduled
task and you can almost forget about it.

Cheers,

Marcus

On 01/07/2014 09:09, Roger Shufflebottom rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
[Avid-L2] wrote:
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> I see you say 'I don't know why the finder chokes on them sometimes'.
> Not sure what ISIS version you are on but I think v4.5 much improves
> Finder operations on a Mac. We are waiting for a quiet period to
> implement this.
> With Best Wishes,
> Roger Shufflebottom
> +44 7973 543 660
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> *From:* "Jeff Hedberg jeff@unioneditorial.com [Avid-L2]"
> <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Monday, 30 June 2014, 20:23
> *Subject:* Re: [Avid-L2] backing up each day
>
> I'll chime in and say that we run 'Delta Walker' on our macs.
> It helps files copying to and from the ISIS. I don't know why the
> finder chokes on them sometimes, but DeltaWalker helps us get
> folders matching up.
>
> http://www.deltopia.com/compare-merge-sync/macosx/
> (it is $40)
>
> Jeff
>
> ------------------
> Jeff Hedberg
>
> Director of Operations
> Union Editorial
> 575 Broadway,6th floor
> New York, NY 10012
>
> On Jun 30, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Glen Montgomery
> montgomery.glen@gmail.com <mailto:montgomery.glen@gmail.com>
> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>
> wrote:
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>> I'll second Agustin's recommendation of BitTorrent Sync. It works
>> amazingly well for transferring large video files as well. I was
>> able to transfer a 20 GB file in about half the time it normally
>> takes our ftp to exchange.
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>> http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
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>> Glen Montgomery- Video Editor - Santa Monica, CA
>> _http://coldpost.tv/_
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>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Agustin
>> Goyaagustingoya@gmail.com
>> <mailto:agustingoya@gmail.com>[Avid-L2]<Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>wrote:
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>> Have you triedTorrentSync?
>> I've been using it for a while and works great for syncing,
>> for backups I use rsync on Linux/Mac and DeltaCopy ( an Rsync
>> front end) for Windows.
>> (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp)
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>> <Wancamp.jpg>
>> *Agustín Goya*
>> Editor (EDA)
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>> WANCAMP | POST
>> tel. +54 11 4857 9083
>>
>> cel. +54 9 11 15 6545 2427
>> Skype. agustingoya
>> agustin@wancamp.com.ar <mailto:andres@wancamp.com.ar>
>> wancamp.com.ar <http://www.wancamp.com.ar/>
>>
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>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Michael
>> Brockingtonbrocking@sfu.ca
>> <mailto:brocking@sfu.ca>[Avid-L2]<Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>wrote:
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>> I've been trying Free File Sync out on Mac, thanks to your
>> recommendation Wilson. It doesn't seem to copy extended
>> attributes like colour tags and comments, though. Do you
>> know of a way to get it to do that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Michael
>>
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>> On 2014-06-30, 10:49 AM, Wilson Chaowilsonchao@gmail.com
>> <mailto:wilsonchao@gmail.com>[Avid-L2] wrote:
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the warning; it's always better to be
>>> cautious upfront, than sorry later. However, I've been
>>> using FreeFileSync for years on PCs & I've never had any
>>> malware problems.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wilson
>>>
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>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Jeff
>>> Hedbergjeff@unioneditorial.com
>>> <mailto:jeff@unioneditorial.com>[Avid-L2]<Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>wrote:
>>>
>>> Wilson,
>>> I found out today that the PC version of this
>>> application installs "Potentially Unwanted Programs"
>>> (web browser hijacking stuff). Fortunately, the mac
>>> version doesn't seem to have this issue.
>>>
>>> Just figured that I'd give you a heads up in case you
>>> are running this on a PC.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> ------------------
>>> Jeff Hedberg
>>>
>>> Director of Operations
>>> Union Editorial
>>> 575 Broadway,6th floor
>>> New York, NY 10012
>>>
>>> On Jun 11, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Wilson
>>> Chaowilsonchao@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:wilsonchao@gmail.com>[Avid-L2]
>>> <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Steve
>>>> Hullfishsteve4lists@veralith.com
>>>> <mailto:steve4lists@veralith.com>[Avid-L2]<Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>>> <mailto: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
>>>>
>>>>
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