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Backups – Which Format?
Hi Everyone,
I’m investigating backup solutions at the moment for my DVD / FCP / AE projects. Most of the projects and related files exceed about 10gb. So far I’ve looked at the Iomega Rev drive and perhaps DLT 8000.
My budget is limited to around
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4 Replies
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Are you planning to archive?
How much data will you need to backup at once?
Why not get an external HD…?
Simon Carlson-Thies,
Digital Light Graphics And Animation -
I just want a reliable format to keep my files safe – don’t want to store them on a hard drive cause i’ve lost many a project over time due to failures and errors…
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Dan Sheridan
Video Monkeys LLP
DVD & CD Video Production Services
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Personally in that case I’d go with DLT8000 tape drive, that would be the next best thing.
Simon Carlson-Thies,
Digital Light Graphics And Animation -
hello…
the only thing worth noting (and i haven’t researched the iomega one, although i suspect it’s the same deal as their old jaz drives?) is that tape backup is typically done in a tar format, and therefore you really can’t just pop in a tape to get a file off of it… :-/
in the sys ad world, tape backup is just to have a backup in a worse case, and something like a disk backup would be one where you would want to have easy access to the backed up content…
not to say you can’t get stuff of a tape, naturally, but it is traditionally more difficult…
sitruc
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