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RAIDERS of the LOST ARCHIVE

Posted by S+W, 30 January 2012 7:52 am

Step by Step Archiving

 

Hiya all..........

So taking some artistic license, and plaglarism to new heights, we've come up with this cheeky little title !!

The topic of this post is to do with archiving. A little while back we did a walk through for a new customer that needed to get a load of projects off their system. Up till then they hadn't had a lot of practice with the whole archiving thing so we made this PDF document (see the link, tap the link, download the link !!), to help them along.

userdata/fckdata/335458/Archiving.pdf

For all you experienced chaps and chapettes out there this will all be familar ground but for anyone that wants a little more visual guidance it may be helpful.

Anyways have a look.....see what you think......and as always any feedback will be happily taken.

 

And in the meantime......................MIND THAT BOULDER !!!!!

 

Stuy & Joe

 

2 Comments

robcoulin

Posted 1 February 2012 12:36 am

just GREAT - guys!!
even i can understand it ;-)
rob

A-N-D-Y

Posted 17 January 2013 6:45 pm

Does anyone know of a solution or workflow of backing up the backup (file archive drives)? My company is looking to keep an additional copy of all our archive drives (there are quite a few of them) offsite, so God forbid if the place burned to the ground, we would still have all of our projects somewhere safe. Or the more likely scenario of plugging in a drive to restore from and finding out it won't turn on. Hard drives only last for so long (not as long as a tape could last) but with more and more projects having mixed media, a file archive is a necessity.

Rather than opening up a previous archive, restoring it to the computer, and archiving it again to another drive, does anyone know of a faster/more efficient way of making an additional backup? Or maybe even being able to backup to 2 drives at the same time? We have a cache system with LTO tapes set up for mac based projects, but I'm not sure if its possible to backup the Linux archive to it (and be able to restore back into Smoke when needed).

-Andy

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