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What is the BEST WAY TO ARCHIVE OLD PROJECTS and related media?
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“If only the rendered film, you might look into getting some cheap online space in addition to hard drives.”
For as long as the online storage company stays in business or you continue to pay them.
As to 100yr Blu-Ray, film and shellac/vinyl/whatever are the only mediums I can think of that have lasted 100 years are still playable. Oh, and paper piano rolls. Current Blu-Ray formats are already being supersceded in labs. You think someone will be able to find a working Blu-Ray drive in a hundred or even 30 years? They still sell them, but have you seen a ZIP drive lately? CD was by far the most widely used optical medium for audio and storage and it is on the way out.
On the other hand, I have seen large stores of mainframe oil exploration data in storage on tape here in Houston. Wanna bet I can find a drive to play them back?
IBM essentially invented the modern disk drive and they say use tape.
Tom and Thomas, you are most welcome.
I hope you folks are having a good eve/whatever,
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Cheers Hunter,
No I’m not using the Project Manager. I’ll look into that.
Thomas
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Anyone ever considered setting up a Bucket on Amazon S3?
Cheap cloud storage with the infrastructure of Amazon behind it. -
Anyone ever considered setting up a Bucket on Amazon S3?
Cheap cloud storage with the infrastructure of Amazon behind it.Cloud storage should only be used for non mission critical items. What if you need a clip and Amazon or your Internet connection is down. Twitter, RIM, and even GMAIL are not always up. Also, if you do much work cloud storage would get expensive. And you have to keep paying.
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PS: People forget that an Internet connection can be brought down by a worker with a backhoe.
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No doubt LTO is the best option for “true” archiving. I’d look for a device that supports LTFS. Not only do you gain more open support as it is not proprietary, you can mount a tape and see your files just like a big ‘ol flash drive. Archive and restore are still slow depending on the device but you give yourself openness in deciding how you want to manage your assets.
If you’re never really planning to come back to the projects, you probably don’t need a full blown asset management databasing every file for you. A self maintained database via Access or Filemaker Pro would probably be fine.
Back when I did similar work, often I’d just make an image file of the final DVD/Blu-Ray I delivered the client and store that on a disc. that way, if the client ever wanted additional copies, I could easily create them. Obviously, no tweaks at all were able to be accomplished after the fact but with these projects that wasn’t needed.
Since you never need to make changes, I’d buy an LTO-5 tape and outsource the archiving to someone with a drive. If each project got condensed down to 80GB, you could fit 16 projects on one tape. The initial outlay of $3K+ may not be worthwhile depending on your archive frequency and volume. Heck, maybe there’s a way to monetize the thing though – charge other people to archive. It’s a hot topic right now and will keep growing.
Jack Guthrey
Carolinas Account Representative
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[Jack Guthrey] “I’d look for a device that supports LTFS”
LTFS has some serious issues in use. I don’t have a link handy but one might google it.
The solution I ordered with BRU PE allows the client to have a copy of BRU PE on a CD to install and retrieve their files. Not sure what they are using to make the archive but usually folks that started in the Un*x world use one standard or another.
Have a fun Fri.,
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[Robert Ober] ”
Having used HP drives in my day job of IT consulting I am about to buy this when they call me back:https://silverado.cc/shop/product.php?productid=1474&cat=0&page=1“
FYI:
This man shipped the ATTO card and blank tape but has not shipped my drive and BRU PE license. He got my PayPal payment on 6/20 .
I am in touch with PayPal, the Scramento DA’s office, and a lawyer.
Y’all be cool,
Robert
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