Backup Strategies

[Nick Pisarro, jr.]

Take a look at my white paper on backup strategies at: https://npassociatesllc.com/backupsforfcp/?afunc=docs and investigate my product at the same domain.

It knows how to backup just the Events and Projects and possibly media and to ignore the other stuff, like render files and transcoded media (in my upcoming release).

Backups for Final Cut Pro came out after this message thread was created.

NickP

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

I use a separate backup set for media and libraries/projects.
I keep a fcparch of each card on a raid5 array. Then a copy of all extracted media on external drives I don’t use for editing, stored in a separated location for extra safety against theft or such. I keep current project and currently used media on a RAID0 fast array I use for editing, and synch libraries daily onto another RAID1 array. I feel safe enough this way. If I had to share media through different project I’d rather make multiple copies, but I don’t have to do it a lot and I mostly work with AVCHD source material so disk space is never a real issue.

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4

[Nick Pisarro, jr.]

Again, look at my product, Backups For Final Cut Pro at https://npassociatesllc.com/backupsforfcp/ . I’ve kept it up-to-date to support libraries. It is much more flexible than the FCP X backup feature.

The upcoming release, to be posted soon, will add filtering so you can control what libraries to back up as well as backing up across weird file systems.

NickP