So I’ve been busy doing post-production for several shoots from the past couple of weeks, which got me thinking about data storage and backups for all that hard work. Keeping data safe also helps my clients; if someone loses a disk, I like to be able to replace it for them quickly and easily, and the only way to be able to do that is to have reliable backups that are readily accessible.
When I was just starting out, a couple of external 250G drives were plenty, and it was really easy to do periodic DVD backups as the amount of data was relatively small.
After 10 years in business, though, my image library is pretty beefy; nearly 3TB on the studio’s server and a cabinet filled with DVDs.
How to keep track of it all? How to do backups now that putting all that stuff on DVDs would be a horribly time-consuming and environmentally unsound process? Well, friends, sit right down and listen well; the next several blog posts will be about this very subject, so stay tuned.
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