Re: HD Backup Workflow

I am becomming very sensitive to this subject, because of a LOT of drive failures at my clients.
Just because you spend - $5000 - $15,000 for a RAID 5 or RAID 6 array, doens't mean that you are not going to have a catostrophic failure, and lose all your data. This is NOT videotape. Drives fail.
A $15,000 fibre array is at the mercy of an $80 disk drive. You must have multiple redundant backups - this is why some people are willing to pay $8000 for a Cache LTO4A tape backup system. If you can't do this (becuase it's too slow, too small, and too expensive), then you MUST have multiple drive backups (never less than two) - or you are begging for trouble. For critical jobs, like a feature film shot on RED, for example, you backup, and again, and again. Is this a pain - you bet it is.

Bob Zelin