Back up 5D footage
Hi guys
How do you back up your footage? I notice that all my backups are getting super heavy, as I convert files to PRORES for editing and also keep raw footage. What is the best way? Keep them both or delete native files (since I use PRORES for projects and never use raw) |
Are you talking about backups (short term) or are you talking about archives(long term)?
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I guess I am talking about short term. For archiving I burn the raw files to dvds and keep it in several places as well as keep files on a separate hard-drive
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I load my original onto one drive and when I transcode to Prores, that goes to another drive, or drives. Then I backup the original to Blu-ray.
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I'm filling up several terabyte usb external drives where I have copies of both the RAW and the Converted files. It real kinda makes sense almost to just save the RAWs - you can always convert but you can't get a RAW from a converted file....
I know I have truckloads of wasted space in RAWs and converted for editing AVIs that will never see the light of day but storage is cheap now.....I shoot so much it's been years since DVD archival was even an option. As the Terabyte drives fill I retire one of the redundant pair and keep in a safe offsite place for safety. |
I gave up buying more and more and more hard disks that I know will eventually fail because they are sat on the shelf not moving. Hard Disks need to be used or their bearings seize up. Sometimes that's quick (a couple of years) other times it takes longer. Either way, eventually they fail.
I made the investment in an LTO drive and now I simply back up to industry standard tapes that have a shelf life exceeding 20 years. Since taped are a third (or less) of the price of one HDD I can make three backups (different locations) for the same price and so have better redundancy that a single HDD can every provide. |
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The older drives don't have such a good transfer rate as LTO-3/4/5 so it takes longer to write each individual tape but 1-200GB would easily cover most of our projects. |
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HP LTO4 800 GB backup drive and SAS card: $2,400 20 tapes (16 TB): $600 ===== $3,000 That's $188/TB, over three times as much as 2TB hard drives: External e-sata hard drive docking station: $30 Eight 2TB drives ($100/each at the time of this writing): $800 ==== $830 The less tapes you use, the more lopsided the comparison: HP LTO4 800 GB backup drive and SAS card: $2,400 7 tapes (5.6 TB): $175 ===== $2,575 That's $460/TB, while the 6TB of hard drives is only $55/TB, so in that scenario it's 8 times cheaper. The tape drive would have to be $155 in order to match the cost of hard drives for 6 TB of backup (2 TB in triplicate). But even the cheapest ones are ten times that amount. |
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This is my work chain
As soon as I shoot I copy the card contents to the hard drive I then convert footage to ProRes but keep also the original I then archive the original on BluRay Then i edit in ProRes (sometimes footage is there for months) Once the job is finished I trim the project keeping only used footage with some short handles I then archive the job with the used/trimmed footage I prefer not to use HD for space reasons mainly. I agree that today they are cost effective allthough you need to keep many jobs on the same HD multiplying the risk of damage. Blu Ray is probably not safe either but at least (in theory) if you brake one disk the others will work |
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