[Hidden-tech] Online backup for video production

[Al Williams]

Greetings,

I would echo Dan. We have about 80TB of information on site at a time. I
would say about 30TB of that is simply finished, exported digital video and
and audio projects in a compressed state. So none of that includes any raw.

There is no online solution of which I am aware  that can manage those
kinds of needs at any reasonable price.. We use RAID1 (which is really a
minimum security level) drives as well as a Drobo array which is RAID5. The
RAID1 drives need to be spun up at least once a month to avoid freezing.
And, of course, we need to regularly purchase and swap out drives as they
fail.

Best,

Al

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Stefan Gonick <stefan at databasewebworks.com
> wrote:

>
>
>
>
>  Hey Everyone,
>
> I did some more research and found a service that looks good: *SOS Online
> Backup*.
> They have unlimited storage, fast upload, backs up open files, and they
> got an
> Editor's Choice award at PC Mag. In fact, PC Mag has a link in their
> review that gets
> you 25% off.
>
>  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371307,00.asp
>
> It looks good!
> Stefan
>
> At 08:28 AM 10/12/2014, you wrote:
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>
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> The biggest issue that you're going to have is with having enough upstream
> bandwidth in order to back up all that you need to overnight. Because
> you're not going to want to have cloud backup running during the day
> because it will hinder your productivity. So that means scheduling it to
> start after business hours.  And if you have several workstations to back
> up, or have the data from several users on one server, that's going to take
> a lot of bandwidth. What's the upstream bandwidth of your Internet
> connection currently?
>
> Backblaze is my favorite cloud backup service. $5/month for unlimited
> data.
>
> Previously CrashPlan was my favorite. But I found that their Java-based
> software is very slow and becomes downright  problematic when backing up a
> large quantity of files. For example,when my clients would have 4 GB or
> more to be packed up the software with frequently lose track of what it was
> doing. And CrashPlan support couldn't always fix it
>
> That's when I switched to backblaze at my home office and at several
> clients offices and have been very happy.
>
>
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> On Oct 11, 2014, at 6:27 PM, David Korpiewski <davidk at cs.umass.edu> wrote:
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>
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> Crashplan.com   It has unlimited data storage for 5 bucks a month.  There
> is a business plan available too but I don't know how much that costs.  I
> know a few businesses that signed up for the "personal" or "family plan"
> and are backing up several hundreds of gigabytes.
>
>
>
> On 10/11/2014 8:41 AM, Sven Kielhorn wrote:
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>
> Good morning all,
>
> As a video production company we have rather large file and project back
> ups needs. A conversation about cloud backup quickly includes several TBs
> per work station. Currently we use a system which includes external drives
> with RAID arrays.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on affordable online backup up solutions?
> ---
> thank you
>
> Sven Kielhorn
>
> Creative & Marketing Director
>
> eTown Videos
>
> P 413-324-1130
>
> www.etownvideos.com
>
>
>
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