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OT-Cloning large amounts of data to an extenal FW drive
I am backing up an external SATA RAID to an external FW drive. Over 1TB of data. Tride Carbon Copy Cloner and it stalled about 2/3 of the way (weird thing, after force quiting, I checked the data and the total was identical to the source, but the drive was acting funny) Feeling uncomfortable I have now simply compied over the data (on a freshly reformated drive) folder by folder. I read on CCC website that there might be a problem with cloning to FW drives. Has anyone else had this problem. I would love to make a clone of the source as I would not then have to worry about missing anything plus it would reconnect within FCP.
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I am curious why you didn’t just drag and drop. That is what I do, and it works fine.
I only use CCC when I need to back up a system drive…hidden files and all.
Shane
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Shane, The FW drive is going to be strictly a backup and I was hoping (purely speculative at this point) that by cloning I would not have to do any reconect if the RAID went down. I could simply pull the FW of the shelf, plug it in, and voila, FCP sees it as the original RAID. Draging and dropping is what I am doing now. I did it folder by folder because I thought we had a corrupt file. Now I’ve learned that it probably is a FW/OS issue in general. Do you have any problems draging a droping large amounts of data (over 1Tb) onto FW drives? We tried that at the very first; but it would hang up about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way there.
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I name both drives the same thing and I get no problems. It is the name path that FCP is looking for. I captured footage, then copied them to another drive and gave that drive to my producer. Then, when i have a new cut, I send the project file, he opens it and boom, there’s the cut.
Never had a problem dragging and dropping. But, I do it in chunks. habit.
Shane
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Doh!!, never even thought of simply naming the drive the same. If there are two ways of doing somehting, one simple and easy, one complex and difficult. Always chose the complex way.
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