atomgfx
11-27-2010, 12:03 PM
I recently had a HDD go wobbly on me and lost about a days worth of work. Fortunately on this occasion I had a bit of time between loosing the work and the deadline, otherwise I could of kissed good-bye to the contract I was working on and my reputation with it. It made me think about being a bit more wary and if possible 99.9% safe that if it happened again my butt would be covered.
Im pretty good at backing up but find it a pain, most project folders are 10-20gb and at present I dont use any fancy software or file systems and literally duplicate the whole working folder at the end of every day. Not ideal I know.
Ive been thinking about getting some kind of RAID system in place to mirror my drive, so Ive always got a back-up and it is constantly updating as I am working. My first thought would be to buy an external one so I can take it when working at home, inhouse or at a clients, much like I do an external HDD. But this solution still leaves me prone to problems, mainly I have to plug and unplug a hefty drive heightening things like power surges etc..but also what if it gets stolen, or both disks get damaged somehow.
My time working is spent largely in two locations at home and at the office, ideally I'd like to always have an upto date file to hand and an upto date file backed up in a secure location, however I cant get my head around how I could have the drives mirroring each other. Im assuming I either need some kind of RAID system in the office and another at home where I can just take a single drive between the two and refresh them each time I use them, or I was also wondering of some kind of Google Docs, Dropbox, FTP Server thingy?? that I could keep mirrored to my local drive. However this would have to take into consideration the folder sizes.
Im happy to spend a little money on this if it means protecting my work in progress. I should also point out the contents of the folder is mainly a few working files and the rest is usually images/image sequences and uncompressed video(these can be a few gb).
Any bright ideas, software solutions or examples of how you might get around a similar problem? I basically need this as tight and secure as possible, ideally as fool proof as you can get it of any fire, theft or dodgy disk drive that could jeopardise work but also need it to be reasonable in that I cant spend an hour everyday backing-up.
ideas?
Im pretty good at backing up but find it a pain, most project folders are 10-20gb and at present I dont use any fancy software or file systems and literally duplicate the whole working folder at the end of every day. Not ideal I know.
Ive been thinking about getting some kind of RAID system in place to mirror my drive, so Ive always got a back-up and it is constantly updating as I am working. My first thought would be to buy an external one so I can take it when working at home, inhouse or at a clients, much like I do an external HDD. But this solution still leaves me prone to problems, mainly I have to plug and unplug a hefty drive heightening things like power surges etc..but also what if it gets stolen, or both disks get damaged somehow.
My time working is spent largely in two locations at home and at the office, ideally I'd like to always have an upto date file to hand and an upto date file backed up in a secure location, however I cant get my head around how I could have the drives mirroring each other. Im assuming I either need some kind of RAID system in the office and another at home where I can just take a single drive between the two and refresh them each time I use them, or I was also wondering of some kind of Google Docs, Dropbox, FTP Server thingy?? that I could keep mirrored to my local drive. However this would have to take into consideration the folder sizes.
Im happy to spend a little money on this if it means protecting my work in progress. I should also point out the contents of the folder is mainly a few working files and the rest is usually images/image sequences and uncompressed video(these can be a few gb).
Any bright ideas, software solutions or examples of how you might get around a similar problem? I basically need this as tight and secure as possible, ideally as fool proof as you can get it of any fire, theft or dodgy disk drive that could jeopardise work but also need it to be reasonable in that I cant spend an hour everyday backing-up.
ideas?