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AVID Backup
What tools do you use to back up your Avid media?
I need to get media off of a LAN share for offline storage.
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5 Replies
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I recommend using G-RAID firewire drives. Just duplicate your sequence into a new bin, right-click and select consolidate, select the FW drive, and when it’s done save a copy of your bin to that FW drive too.
AVID’s media tool is rock solid and I recommend it over any other 3rd party tool our there.
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For the actual backup media we’ve used Quantum LTO Drives for a year or two now. I’m always leary of storing media on drives that aren’t spinning and we don’t have that kind of space to archive the projects we do.
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I find Avid’s media tool still misses some media and have always found it top be less than accurate. I use Media Mover to isolate the project’s media files and then back up to hard drive. I would like to go to DLT but the initial buy in cost ($6k aud) is prohibitive at the moment.
https://randomvideo.com/products/mediamover_avid.html
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Check out Vice Versa Pro if you need to copy large amounts of files. I also use it to do incremental backups on current projects.
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I love Media Mover – 3.1 is really fast for backing up projects from Avid on my Mac. I can’t seem to get an answer whether 3.1 will work on Leopard and Media Composer 3.5?
Nancy
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