Re: [ARSCLIST] external hard drive for a start for archiving audio files

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Melodie,

A single hard drive is not a good idea. Even two hard drives are 
somewhat risky. I generally feel comfortable when I have three hard 
drive copies with one off-site or two RAID-5 copies with one off-site.

If you're in the Windows environment, a great program for managing 
the redundant copies is Vice Versa Pro from www.tgrmn.com and I 
strongly urge you NOT to propagate deletes. Delete files that are no 
longer needed manually from each copy.

I also MUCH prefer network attached storage to locally attached 
storage (USB/Firewire). My workflow is to ingest to a local drive and 
then at the end of each session run a VVPro script to push the new 
files out to the two RAID-5 NAS boxes (one off-site). That script 
also calls the Windows SHUTDOWN command, so the audio workstation 
shuts off after the file transfer is complete.

Here are more details:
http://richardhess.com/notes/2008/07/25/file-backup-strategy-and-utilities/

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Richard

Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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