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Long term digital archive
I’m not sure this is the best place to post but I’m sure I’m not the only one struggling with this question so here goes…
In this constantly evolving workflow away from tape to digital file footage I’m being inundated with drives. This is all footage that is acquired with Red or P2 or XDCam. I use the footage but very little of it goes to actual tape.
I know in a year or two people are going to ask to reuse it or revisit these projects. Currently all the footage is stored on two G-Tech’s or something similar and I’m then archiving to LTO-3. These drives fail regularly.
I’m needing to archive about 3 or 4 TB’s of data a week. It’s painful and slow and time consuming. I’m using Retrospect software with a Quantum LTO-3 SCSI drive.
Has anyone explored LTO-4? What are other people doing to archive all these files?
Should I be posting in another forum?
Any opinions are welcome and I’d love to hear what others are doing to tackle this rather vexing problem.
Thanks,
Doug Ryan
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3 Replies
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Doug,
You can search the Cow on this topic, there’s lots of great comments.
I’ve been using Retrospect and LTO-4 and it works great. Quantum just announced release of LTO-5 – huge increase in capacity. I’m sure they will make modules that can drop into their automated machines.
Ed
Avid and FCP Preditor
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just shelve firewire drives and bill em to the project.
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Just make sure you fire the drives up every six months or so and do a refresh of the data so it doesn’t fade away.
A detailed article: https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_restore_hard_disk_data.html
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