![]() Video doesn’t change much once it’s been shot. For my client, video is her primary concern. But, first you have to understand your data. The cloud, and specifically Crashplan’s cloud, provides some interesting solutions. Sounds like a good job for the cloud, right? ![]() So what we are looking for is a solution that is basically fully automated, with off-site backup, and can handle large amounts of data. However, you still have to pay for off-site storage, backup software and someone to swap drives in and out for rotating backups. 2 TB external eSATA drives are quickly approaching the price of a single LTO-5 tape, and are generally faster to restore data. Hard drives have recently become a viable alternative to tape archive. Plus, have you ever met anyone who liked restoring data from tape? No? Me neither. And the tapes themselves are anywhere from $70 to $100 a tape. The tape drives are expensive, averaging $2,600 for LTO-5 Drives from Quantum. Unfortunately for video, that meant LTO(Ultrium) tapes, and specifically LTO-4 or LTO-5. Traditionally the answer has been tape archive and off-site storage. So what backup solution makes the most sense for a company with oodles of business-critical video data they want backed up? But the incident provided the wake-up call to my client that put her over the edge to finally take the plunge into data backup. The Big Disk’s power supply failed, but in a way that didn’t affect the stored data. And because LaCie’s Big Disks are actually two drives RAIDed together (using RAID Level 0), data recovery from a failed Big Disk can be difficult, if not impossible, depending on the failure mode.Īs it turned out, my client dodged a bullet and lost no data from her un-backed-up Big Disk. For my client, this was the failure of a 1 TB LaCie Big Disk, which contained way more critical data than it should have. Most times, the need for backup is spurred because of a big scare. Hard drives are notoriously unreliable, as my client recently found out. They store a lot of raw footage, and a similar amount of completed videos. Video production houses have a number of interesting IT requirements due to the nature of video data. My client is a video production house, specializing in marketing to law firms.
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