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Going tapeless is daunting at first. You get so used to having camera tapes on the shelf for security. Once you get used to tapeless though, it’s no biggy.
You copy the raw camera files from the cards to a hard drive. You back it up 2 or 3 times. Redundancy for security. Hard drives are cheap.
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[Walter Soyka] “Most of our work is motion graphics, so I went the archive route — as are a lot of shops that use tapeless workflows. An LTO5 tape backup system”
It’s ironic that a tapeless workflow still involves a tape 🙂
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[Martin Curtis] “It’s ironic that a tapeless workflow still involves a tape :-)”
It’s cool — I do air quotes with my fingers now when I say “tapeless.”
In all seriousness, I just don’t trust hard drive archives. I don’t like having the read mechanism bundled with the storage medium — too many failure modes. Hard drives just aren’t built to sit on shelves for years like tape is.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Ron,
“That is why we use two or more hard drives to back up our work. Not scary at all.”Ron, no disrespect but that is not archiving. That is backing-up, and at best only a short term solution. HD’s can die, be damaged, become corrupt, or be stolen. They can also become obsolete.
What do you do when they are full? Pull them and store them somewhere? If you do that, they need to be spun up at least every six months. Every time you do that you risk damage or corruption. A small risk, but it is still there.
While tapes do not have an infinite life, most will be able to sit in proper storage undisturbed for decades and still play back reliably.
A quick look at people that are serious about archiving material like museums, banks and government agencies all use tapes not HD’s.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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[Walter Soyka] ” I don’t like having the read mechanism bundled with the storage medium”
That’s a great summary of the problem.
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