Storage and saving videos

Video files can be huge ,i wondered how you save/back up the video files and whether you keep them all even after editing them to make a film.
Personally i keep all the files on h/drives and burn to dvd but i do wonder if it is normal to keep all the files.
Just wondering what you all do with yours?

Trumper wrote in post #16320727
Just wondering what you all do with yours?

TerraStations, currently I have 8TB or NAS storage spread out over 4 RAID 1 drives in two separate TerraStations and even though the drives are RAID 1 mirrors, the video clips stored on them is duplicated between the two TerraStations creating a mirror of the mirror, I keep them synchronized with a program called ViceVersa.

http://www.tgrmn.com/

A third 2TB TerraStation serves as a repository for the NLE machine backups.

Now having been burnt once and knowing the costs of data recovery I keep off site backups stored in a safe deposit box utilizing standard SATA 2TB NTFS drives that are rotated and synched every thirty days or so.

As such should my office and the hardware get wiped of the map I would be able to pull the drives from the safe deposit box and begin rebuilding with no more than a months loss of clips.

Wayne

Thanks for that.My computer has just blown up 2 x 3tb drives ,i have burnt them all onto dvd as they came out of the camera as well so a case of re copying back later on.
With many hours and large GB's of video files an edited film may only use a small percentage of them.

Trumper wrote in post #16320764
With many hours and large GB's of video files an edited film may only use a small percentage of them.

I have clips ranging from a few minutes to multi hour events and while I only use say maybe 20% or so of what I record, everything is indexed and archived.

The majority of my work is Journalism and a majority of that is political coverage and there is nothing like having a clip of a politician stating something on an issue that he or she has flipped a hundred and eighty degrees on.

Those are the kind of clips you can take a check to the bank with, more so if you have the only one that is HD quality with clear audio.

Wayne

Channel One wrote in post #16322375
there is nothing like having a clip of a politician stating something on an issue that he or she has flipped a hundred and eighty degrees on.

Now when does that ever happen!!

Slowly backing everything up to a new 3 tb h/drive --even though i have backed them up to a couple of other H/Drives and dvd's makes you realise you are not far away from losing all your memories

I only keep my raw footage for paying clients (2years) or very few personal projects.

I use 2tb drives as backup and I swap them out every 3 years or so bcecuase they have a limited shelf lives as well, specially when not in use often.

I back up all my raw footage to Western Digital hard drives. Haven't had a crash or problem yet. **crosses fingers**
All are organized in detail according to event name and time of day.