archiving

skintback wrote on 7/10/2008, 10:32 AM
Hey guys
I have searched and looked for the (a) answer on this and I think it may be a pretty amateur question....but I gotta ask (sorry)
What media do most of you guys use when storing finished product? DVD, copy back to Tape, external drive? Would dvd copy be sufficiant?
I don't necessarily need to keep anything to be edited later, just need something that I can make good copy of.
Apologies again for my ignorance

Comments

jrazz wrote on 7/10/2008, 11:20 AM
Good question. If, like you say, you do not need to make future edits, a DVD copy (or 2) would suffice. I would recommend keeping a hard drive just for that purpose. Once it is filled up, label it with the contents and store it (along with the DVD copy). Then rinse and repeat :)

j razz
bakerja wrote on 7/10/2008, 12:10 PM
I just ordered a NAS device with 2 1tb drives (raid 1) just for this purpose. My plan is to render masters to .avi, then drop them on a Sorenson Squeeze watch folder that will in turn render all the formats that I need in a batch. I can then copy the archived version (usually an mpeg2) to the NAS where it will live happily ever after. Most of my projects are under 10 minutes and this should work nicely for a while.

JAB
skintback wrote on 7/10/2008, 12:24 PM
does that rinse and spit mean buy another external HD and start over :)
Thanks
Steve Mann wrote on 7/10/2008, 12:46 PM
30 to 60-Gb HDD's are getting cheaper every day. I plug one into my USB2 port and it becomes my project disk. I am currently just putting a naked disk on my desktop and using a $15 USB to IDE adapter. I plan to get one of the USB-SATA docking stations as I go forward. When I am done with the project I just unplug the drive, label it, and put it on a shelf. If changes are needed within a year, I just plug the disk back in and I am back in business. After a year, I ask the client if they want to pay for long-term storage. If they say yes, the price is 3X the cost of the HDD (per year), which pays for another disk. Otherwise, it gets reformatted for the next project.