so who uses raid hard drives for backing up your projects?
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so who uses raid hard drives for backing up your projects?
who here use raid configurations and what do you use?
i think it's a great idea to use raid for audio and video and i'm thinking about using this soon. anyone have any suggestions etc.
i found the lacie 2big Triple Hard drive array
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-LaCie-2big-Trip ... |294%3A200
looks pretty cool.
i think it's a great idea to use raid for audio and video and i'm thinking about using this soon. anyone have any suggestions etc.
i found the lacie 2big Triple Hard drive array
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-LaCie-2big-Trip ... |294%3A200
looks pretty cool.
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For sure I use Logic Pro which lets me use internal SATA 2 Raid Striped as a recording drive and I back up to a networked Raid Mirrored drive.
Here is the networked drive I use
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Raidon/SL36202SLB2/
Here is the networked drive I use
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Raidon/SL36202SLB2/
Yep, RAID only protects you from a mechanical disk failure pretty much... you can still have the whole thing shit the bed if your controller dies in a spectacular way.
I use a RAID array in my machine for piece of mind, I like the idea of just blowing through a HD failure in the middle of a session and fixing it after hours rather than having things come to a halt while we deal with transfers and back-ups. But, I still back it up onto my portable & my laptop at the end of the day.
I use a RAID array in my machine for piece of mind, I like the idea of just blowing through a HD failure in the middle of a session and fixing it after hours rather than having things come to a halt while we deal with transfers and back-ups. But, I still back it up onto my portable & my laptop at the end of the day.
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Does anyone have any reco's for portable hard drives (firewire)? (specifically larger ones, say 160GB or more...?)0-it-hz wrote:Yep, RAID only protects you from a mechanical disk failure pretty much... you can still have the whole thing shit the bed if your controller dies in a spectacular way.
I use a RAID array in my machine for piece of mind, I like the idea of just blowing through a HD failure in the middle of a session and fixing it after hours rather than having things come to a halt while we deal with transfers and back-ups. But, I still back it up onto my portable & my laptop at the end of the day.
Something we use as a 'pseudo' RAID is just a script that runs daily and automatically backs up anything that's new/changed onto a secondary backup HD, you could set it to delete things that no longer exist.
Simple alternative for those without a RAID controller - useful way to keep a regular backup and you don't have to remember to do it!
robocopy (I think part of all windows) has the options necessary to set it up.
Simple alternative for those without a RAID controller - useful way to keep a regular backup and you don't have to remember to do it!
robocopy (I think part of all windows) has the options necessary to set it up.
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It takes at least moderate linux chops to do it but setting up an open source product like http://www.amanda.org/ or www.bacula.org/ to back up nightly on a network + a raid would give you pretty good protection. You could set it up so that your stuff was backed up to multiple media while you slept every night. If your raid controller dies during a session, you're still SOL at that point though, for the tracking done since the last nightly backup. Pony up the coin for a NET APP... probably not. If I get a really good take while tracking I'll often take a break to move a copy over to the external drive. I personally don't record professionally so I manage rather menially.
I used to work for a University IT department and the main sys admin had elaborate redundant backup, far beyond what I mention above, and he STILL burned DVD's of crucial directories every so often.
I used to work for a University IT department and the main sys admin had elaborate redundant backup, far beyond what I mention above, and he STILL burned DVD's of crucial directories every so often.
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Re: so who uses raid hard drives for backing up your projects?
My company has tried the solution from Nakivo very intensively for all our entire virtualized environment. We haven’t had any issues with it. The support has been very responsive to every question. It's a simple backup solution for an affordable price
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Re: so who uses raid hard drives for backing up your projects?
I use a RAID for backup... but I’m only using the RAID fir speed. I have 4 drives striped. But it’s not like that backup is my only backup. Everything that’s backups up to that RAID is backed up elsewhere too.
I have my studio Mac setup with 3 unique backups:
- time machine backups to a USB3 8TB drive that’s physically attached
- time machine backups to another mac’s 4-drive RAID via SMB filesharing
- Backblaze online backup
I have my studio Mac setup with 3 unique backups:
- time machine backups to a USB3 8TB drive that’s physically attached
- time machine backups to another mac’s 4-drive RAID via SMB filesharing
- Backblaze online backup
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