CalDigit Support

[Steven Gonzales]

Could you explain your backup schedule? Do you backup each day (say to get renders, etc) or only when you have added media (such as after a capture session?)

I’m impressed that a major hardware problem barely caused you to miss a beat, and if you could share hints that would be great.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Steven Gonzales] “Could you explain your backup schedule? Do you backup each day (say to get renders, etc) or only when you have added media (such as after a capture session?)”

I do everything manually right now and am looking in to automated software.

but right now, I simply drag all the new material to my LaCie unit after each Capture sessions, after all my renders, etc… I generally do this at the end of each day, though sometimes I’ll do this at lunch time as well. Then I’ll back up the actual project files (FCP, AE, Motion, etc…) to a little USB Flash Drive.

All told, it took 10 minutes for me to switch completely over to the LaCie and all I was missing was an animated title I had created in Motion that morning. That took all of 2 minutes to re-render and I was good to go.

To transfer everything back to the LaCie took about an hour as it was almost 1TB of material, but even that was far less than the 2 days it took me to digitize everything originally.

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[Arnie Schlissel]

You can use Carbon Copy Cloner for this kind of backup. You could probably use Super Duper or PSynch as well, but I’m not familiar with those apps. In the preferences, CCC has an option to synch the target to the source, copying only new or modified files from the source to the target.

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[Dan Riley]

Walter,
Look into SuperDuper. Works great for auto backups.
I have it set to look at my media RAID at night, to see what
needs to be added to my firewire drive backup. Use Smart Backup
to only add the new stuff.
It only backs up from one source to another at a time though.
But for me that’s not a problem.

Also, you said 1TB of stuff took only an hour to transfer from your
LaCie to your new RAID? It takes me about 90 minutes per 100 gigs
to transfer, and that’s using SATA RAID to 800 Firewire.
But I’m on a G5 2.5 dual. Is your Mac Pro that much faster at transfers?

Dan

[Walter Biscardi]

[Danrnw] “Also, you said 1TB of stuff took only an hour to transfer from your
LaCie to your new RAID? It takes me about 90 minutes per 100 gigs
to transfer, and that’s using SATA RAID to 800 Firewire.
But I’m on a G5 2.5 dual. Is your Mac Pro that much faster at transfers?”

No clue really, I don’t recall our other Macs being that slow (100GB / Hour) though. It took between an hour / hour and a half tops to make the transfer here.

Thanks for the tip on Super Duper, I’ll look at that.

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[Bret Williams]

A TB in an hour sounds pretty fast. However 100gig can be done in less than 2 hours over fW400, so 100gig in an hour over sata is kinda slow isn’t it?

[Debe]

Except that 100 gigabytes is not a terabyte.

1000 (or 1024, depending on who you ask) gigabytes is a terabyte.

debe

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bret Williams] “A TB in an hour sounds pretty fast. However 100gig can be done in less than 2 hours over fW400, so 100gig in an hour over sata is kinda slow isn’t it?”

My mistake. I’m in the office today mastering out some shows and while there is 1TB of material on the LaCie, actual files transferred are about 450GB. Took about 1 1/2 hours.

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[Peterson]

Walter, where were you able to purchase your 2TB LaCie FW800 RAID for $900? Shopping around the net, it seems to be going for considerably more…

thanks-

pete

[Walter Biscardi]

[peterallen] “Walter, where were you able to purchase your 2TB LaCie FW800 RAID for $900? Shopping around the net, it seems to be going for considerably more…”

https://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=605779&Redir=1

$899.99

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