• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Backing up for FCP7

  Posted by Stuart Smith on December 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm

  Hi all,
  After doing some research, and talking to a few other people, a few things have come to light about the way we are doing things here. This isn’t strictly about FCP, but people in this forum have probably run into similar issues. I’ve found a few posts on this, but I’m looking for someone that may have gone through a similar process as us, and what the solution was.

  We work on GTechs 3rd Generation 1TB GRaids using FW800, and backup all our project drives to Seagate Barracudas. Most of our work involves Pro Apps, Maya and Adobe Creative Suite.

  On RED shoots, we’ll backup the RED drives twice to either GRaids, or Mini GRaids, before brining one of those back to our facility to copy it to our project drive.

  To do these backups, we’ve just been dragging and dropping the files from one drive to another. I’ve now been told that this isn’t exactly the best way to do backups as dragging and dropping won’t copy some index files and hidden files.

  We’ve also been using Time Machine to back up our workstation hard drives, and I’m now reading posts that say that Pro Apps won’t be recovered properly if Time Machine is used to back up a system drive.

  Has anyone else heard of these issues, and if so, do you have a suggestion for backing up project/RED drives and cloning system drives?

  So far I’ve been looking at ChronoSync, SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner and Synchronize X Plus.

  Thanks
  Stuart

  Ken Jones replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Victor Perez

  December 8, 2009 at 7:56 pm

  We use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up all 6 of our Mac Pro System drives and have had to rely on our copies twice in the last year and everything had been recovered from the clone including the pro apps. As of yet we havn’t had a problem with CC Cloner.

  As for media files we shoot XDCam HD so all our raw material is still on the XDCam Discs.

  Victor
  http://www.editvictor.com
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  Ken Jones

  December 8, 2009 at 8:13 pm

  I’ve been using Synchronize X Plus for about a year and have been very happy with it.

  My set up inside my Mac Pro is:
  Drive 1: System HD
  Drive 2: System HD Backup
  Drive 3: Resources (production music, graphics, general stuff I use all the time for multiple clients)
  Drive 4: Resources Backup

  My media is written to a 7.5TB eSATA (port multiplier) RAID 0 tower with five 1.5TB drives.
  I have an identical 7.5TB RAID 0 tower Backup.

  Synchronize X Plus runs every night and does three backups:
  3:00 AM – backup “System HD” to “System HD Backup”
  3:30 AM – backup “Resources” to “Resources Backup”
  4:00 AM – backup “RAID” to “RAID Backup”

  I still shoot everything on tape (HDV, DV, BetaSP) so I don’t really require any backup of shot media besides the original tapes.

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