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Hide backup hard drive from FCPX
Our studio has 2 Mac Pro’s running FCPX which both have a ‘video’ drive and a ‘video backup’ drive. I have SyncSyncSync set up to sync the backup drive to the video drive every night.
When opening FCPX, the events sometimes show up in ‘Video’ and sometimes show up in ‘Video Backup.’ On one machine we’ve had a TON of ‘media missing’ issues… always first thing in the morning, which I suspect is becaue FCPX is writing data to the backup drive which is getting overwritten by the video drive content at night.
My question is, is there any way to hide a drive from fcpx? I’d really like to have fcpx completely unaware of the existence of the backup drive.
How is everyone else handling backups?
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Not that I know of other than un-mounting the drive manually before launching FCP X or writing your backups as disk images instead of file by file. You definitely do not want multiple copies of the same FCP projects and events existing on the same system as this will cause you grief in FCP X.
Instead I’d suggest a slight change to your backup strategy- only mount the backup drive when FCP X is not running and unmount it when backups are complete. Lots of backup software can do this exact thing on a schedule automatically to avoid active file conflicts- I noticed Sync Sync Sync even mentions this in their tech support as possible through Apple Script. https://homepage.mac.com/nsekine/SYW/software/english/sync3/
Other apps have this function built in, such as Super Duper. https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
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I use Event Manager X:
https://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/Mac Pro Quad, MacBook Pro, MacBook Black, iPhone 2G, HP Dreamcolor
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I used CarbonCopyCloner the other day to clone a hard drive and noticed that it has drive sync backup options. I decided to give it a try as my backup tool and see if I liked it better than SyncSyncSync.
I do like it better! AND it has a built in ‘unmount drive after backup’ option, which is just what I was looking for so that FCPX wasn’t seeing the events on my backup drive.
If I leave my “video backup” drive unmounted, CCC will mount it and run the backup. The problem is that as soon as it mounts “Video Backup” FCPX grabs it and when CCC tries to unmount, it can’t….
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