Bob Zelin
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Hi Randall –
once you transfer your media onto your Synology or QNAP, you already have your backup – it’s your original drives !
There is nothing wrong with running Chronosync, or Carbon Copy Cloner, or Super Duper, or Shot Put Pro.
These are great programs for doing backups, and they allow scheduling as well.Your path will not be affected, and you will not have to relink your media to your editing software, because your computer will mount only the shared folder name that you create in the NAS system. Use the same name as the single drive for the shared folder, and your client computers will think they still have the single drive connected to them, so there will be no relinking issues.
If you need help in setting this up, let me know.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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Hi –
why disregard 1 star reviews. Products of similar price range from QNAP and Synology are dramatically better products.
And other generic NAS manufacturers like Thecus and Netgear have been making dramatically better products as well.
Drobo seems to have one common goal, and it’s not on performance. Make it super easy to use and setup, and keep the price as low as possible. So I guess if you are backing up family photos, this is a perfectly fine product (then why not use iCloud or DropBox at that point). For generic thunderbolt drive arrays, from companies like G-Tech, Promise, CalDigit, Maxx Digital, Lacie, etc., all of these are dramatically better than the Drobo. And let me assure you that if your company ever intends to use this as the center of a shared storage solution, the Drobo will ABSOLUTELY not work in this application.Bob Zelin
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I am amazed that an Atlanta based company is willing to try to enter the NAS storage market, with all the Chinese competition, that is charging very little money for their products.
I wish them luck.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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when you have a single RAID array that is raid protected, you have ALL of your media instantly available at your disposal. And your single drives now become your archive backup. Instead of having shelves and shelves of drives, you have a single 3 rack unit box that has all your media. And if you are paranoid, you can have TWO RAID boxes, and be cloning from one to the other, so you always have TWO RAID 6 copies – PLUS the single drives that they came from which can now be off site.
As for LTO – yes its very safe. But as we have all seen, nothing lasts forever. How are you going to restore a DLT tape. How about an AIT tape. How about LTO1, LTO2, LTO3, and LTO4. How about non LTFS formats from companies like Cache-A or BRU ? Today, you are “safe” with LTO5 and LTO6, but LTO7 is the new thing – and don’t worry – LTO8 will come out, and then LTO5 will seem like a total dinosaur, and people will say “how do I recover my LTO 5 tape.
The concept of “good for 30 years” is nonsense, when a SCSI 1 interface and drivers for your LTO are no longer available.Data has to be constantly migrated. When you pay a company like Amazon or Apple to keep your data on their cloud site – they too are prone to obsolecense, but you are paying them monthly, so as their old Isilon drive chassis become obsolete, they too migrate the data to modern RAID arrays.
Trying to restore a DLT tape is like trying to play back a 1″ or Quad Videotape. Good luck finding a working machine.
So what is the 20 year plan – THERE IS NO 20 YEAR PLAN – data must be migrated. Yup – film is the safest medium.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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solutions from Imagine Products (it’s PreRoll Post, not Shot Put Pro), and YoYotta have already been suggested.
Even if cloud sites worked, it would cost too much money to permanently store hundreds to terabytes on an Amazon S3 or Google Drive site (or similar – DropBox, iCloud, etc.).So the alternative is a large RAID array, with a redundant backup. This way, it’s your own “cloud site” – but it’s not a cloud site – it’s at their facility. You can readily purchase 16 bay and 24 bay RAID arrays, run it right on a Mac or PC, and put in 8TB 5400 RPM drives.
Sixteen 8TB drives is 128 TB, and after RAID 6 (to allow two drives to fail), it’s 112 TB. 8 TB WD RED 5400 RPM drives are about $320 each. And you will have instant access to your media at any time – not having to spend days to restore from LTO. SO, what if your 128 TB chassis catches on fire – have a redundant array – so now you can have a second 128 TB array (you can daisy chain 8 chassis together, so you can have up to a Pedabyte of storage available) – and run a delta cloning program like ChronoSync or Carbon Copy Cloner (40 bucks), so when media gets added to the RAID array, it is automatically cloned to the redundant array, in case of disaster.This will be the least expensive way to accomplish this. What everyone seems to forget, when archiving to LTO, is that it is VERY VERY time consuming to do this – and labor become the factor, above the cost of the hardware.
Bob Zelin
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do you own Edify ?
are you using Media Composer, or other editing software? I will be able to answer your questions with that info.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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Studio Network Solutions SANmp will also be an alternate software solution for you, which is a better choice than XSAN.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com