[Nick Tandavanitj]

Hi Warren,

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a go.

Cheers,

Nick

[Nick Tandavanitj]

Hi Chris,

Thanks again for your advice on this. We’ve now settled on a set-up of the 5big with…

4TB for project files
4+4 Raid0 for video
4+4 concat for short term Time Machine backups of the system and projects drive (with modified start interval)

We’re also using
– our old 4tb G-raid drives & CCC to keep short term clones of the Raid0 video drive
– a bunch of USB drives (2 copies of each) for long term archiving, with disk catalog maker for indexing

Hope this sounds reasonable as a setup?!

So far, the only issues we potentially have are…

1. Running our g-raid drives over usb2 – they have esata and fw800 but no thunderbolt so seem quite pretty slow

2. working out how to span CCC backups when content on the video drive goes over 4tb.

Cheers
Nick

[Nick Tandavanitj]

Thanks Chris. Understood re – Time Machine drives as bad for archiving. We’re just using them as short term backups in case of disk failure but – you’re right – we could probably schedule these out of office hours

Re backing up big video files, if we exclude big media files from Time Machine, would one solution be to RAID mirror a pair of drives for video on our 5big? Something like

4TB projects
4 + 4 mirrored for video/media files
4 + 4 JBOD for Time machine backups (excluding video files)

[Nick Tandavanitj]

Thanks for the reply. Good question.

Tape is still potentially an option for archiving for us but we often find ourselves dipping back in to review/reuse old footage which we found was pretty painful when we had DAT (nearly 10 years ago) so we’re skeptical that it’s quite right for us.

Would you recommend tape for day to day backups aswell?