Mixed resolution

[Keyser_Soze]

It would be interresting to hear how you guys out there have solved the problem of archiving mixed resolution projects. One way is to split the project in SD and HD and archive that to tape, but any additional odd formats needs to go somewhere...
It's also a pain to have archives split up over different tapes, to bring everything in again is time consuming.
We also have DTF tape but it is slow and tapes are expensive. How do you do it?

[patdawg]

I archive everything that isn't easily redigitizable onto cheap removable hardrives over our network using the file archive option. It works very well for us.

[Keyser_Soze]

I archive everything that isn't easily redigitizable onto cheap removable hardrives over our network using the file archive option. It works very well for us.

Do you think that is safe enough? Or do you have a raid system?

[Jonas]

It would be interresting to hear how you guys out there have solved the problem of archiving mixed resolution projects. One way is to split the project in SD and HD and archive that to tape, but any additional odd formats needs to go somewhere...
It's also a pain to have archives split up over different tapes, to bring everything in again is time consuming.
We also have DTF tape but it is slow and tapes are expensive. How do you do it?

Have anybody tried archieving to SAIT tape. We just bougth a drive for our backup of our serves .... but I think it could work great with FFI.

[hyrlvlrec]

if a client is a repeat client, we put disks on their bill..... archive to disk and put away.... tape machines are so expensive to maintain, and if a hdd is sitting on a shelf, its safe

[patdawg]

I archive everything that isn't easily redigitizable onto cheap removable hardrives over our network using the file archive option. It works very well for us.

Do you think that is safe enough? Or do you have a raid system?

Heck of alot safer than tape...

[hyrlvlrec]

and obviously, far easier and faster too..... we use acard sata2scsi adapters snapped onto hitachi 250gb 7200rpm sata's plugged right into the built in scsi on the back of the oct2's for archiving, and def fasster than tape (none of that long/drawn out formatting going on here)

[AllenRobbins]

It would be interresting to hear how you guys out there have solved the problem of archiving mixed resolution projects. One way is to split the project in SD and HD and archive that to tape, but any additional odd formats needs to go somewhere...
It's also a pain to have archives split up over different tapes, to bring everything in again is time consuming.
We also have DTF tape but it is slow and tapes are expensive. How do you do it?

i use a couple of methods. SD to SD tape. i will un-link all the recapturable material from the clips/edits. then i data archive all the left over stuff to our server NAS. usually in 4.2gb segments and burn to DVD from another workstion. if there are too many segements to spend the DVD burning time, i use our SAIT drive and pay the $$ for the tapes. Archiving is a line item in our budgets.

I also log all this on the labels so i know that this is a mult-rez archive from several sources. Its a pain to mess with multi-rez, but i sure enjoy having the feature.

[paul_round]

We have a SAIT which usually sits on the back of our Backdraft, which works very well./ Unfortunately as we are using Inferno vsn 5, we can only use 350GB of a 500GB tape

[Mikey]

Have a look at Breece Hill's i-stora. They're launching a native Linux version at NAB to go with their Windows and OSX versions.

i-stora is a low cost:
2.4TB NAS + 10slot autoloader with barcode reader + SAIT or LTO3 drive + HSM archive software

http://www.breecehill.com/products/istora/4000.php