This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Project Archiving

As a flame guy primarily I have very robust archiving of finished projects but I store those archives in two bare drives - one at home one at work.

Offline so far has been simply a copy of the project data as the clients keep their rushes disks... I was hoping for some simple way of backing up at the end if the offline.

Resolve I use resolve collect and copy the drp. Nuke we just move he entire nuke directory fir the project, same with graphics. Seems the avid is still the odd one out - especially as I'm running it on a Mac.

Mike

On 20 Oct, 2014, at 4:38 am, "bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

While every fiber of my semi engineer body says that LTO is what the doctor ordered because on paper it has better shelf life etc... In practive EVERY place I've worked at, which these days are production companies, do not have a valid archive workflow in place. Even places that have LTO and part time engineering that comes in and archives periodically I can almost guarantee if the doo doo hit the fan we'd be hosed. We've lost our unity from time to time and fortunately they were able to ultimately restore almost everything without the need for archive. Mean time while the unity techs were working on restoring things I threw my backup hard drives into a shuttle and copied to functioning workspaces and was up and running in less than an hour.

I think the problems I've seen relate to a lack of media management and understanding on the AE side and on the archiving engineers. With media randomly strewn all over the place it's only logical that the archive to LTO is mostly generic workspaces etc... and not project specific. I live in online so I have the ability to manage my media more easily so I will put all my media on a volume or workspace and archive that to a hard drive when done. Sometimes there may be a common graphics workspace to archive too but I've tried to keep most of my shows to one workspace. Of course hard drives die so I should go to two but I typically go to one and if that doesn't hold up, which I've been lucky so far, I would go to the engineers backup and plan on doing the synchronized thumb swap for the hours or days it would take for them to find the LTO archives.

I think I work this way because it's the fastest way to get back up and it's a lot easier to freelance around with bare hard drives and a shuttle than have an LTO system in my trunk. I do know the better managed Production Companies and Facilities do things the correct way but I'll bet as long as my hard drive works I'll be up faster than even those places. Just my 2 cents.

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <mikeparsons.tv@...> wrote :

What would everyone recommend as the current best practice for archiving
a completed Avid project to a folder than I can stick on a drive or LTO?

I've dabbled with them all in the past from MediaMover to Random Duck,
to EDL Spy and other semi automated techniques.

What I want is an application that opens up and says 'hey here's a list
of your projects what do you want to do?'
I select a project click [Archive] it asks me where and navigate click
[ok] then hit [GO]

Later I want to use the same application and click [RESTORE].

Any ideas?

best regards

Mike