Backing Up Your Precious Video
You spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on a camera or camcorder that records video, a computer, software and accessories. And then you spend your precious time to learn about shooting video. And then you spend your precious time and money to go out and actually capture some video. And then you spend precious time editing the video…
What happens to all those video files? You have the raw assets, canned assets, the edits, the music, the stills you insert and the finished product. What do you do with all those files?
Video cameras look at hard drives the way I look at a box of hot, buttered popcorn. . . that is – something to be consumed quickly! So if you shoot, edit and produce a great deal of video, you’ll soon learn that you need a great deal of hard disk space.
But wait – there’s more!
You’ll also soon need a great deal of BACKUP hard disk space. That’s right – you need to back up all that hard work. You don’t want to risk losing that data in the event that your main hard drive fails. And fail they all eventually do.
So the answer is to but AT LEAST as much backup hard drive space as you have primary space.
One way to do that affordably and effectively is using drive arrays like Drobo from Data Robotics. I’ll post a separate review of the Drobo later, but it’s essentially a box with a computer in it that holds SATA drives. You connect the box to your computer, copy files to it and you have a safe, redundant backup.
Whatever tools or system you use, please carefully consider backing up EVERYTHING. As a good friend of mine says, unless you have a backup, you don’t have anything.
