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Alex DeJesus
Alex DeJesus
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Storage Backup Advice

Apr 16, 2012 8:04 PM

Tags: #storage #backup

Just curious to know what are the better 3rd party backup programs available. I need to figure out a good, easy-to-use backup scheme for my footage, projects, etc. For some reason, Windows 7 backup is confusing to me.  I have several external drives, mostly eSATA and USB. I have tried online backups, but way too slow for large files.

 

I work with HDV and tapes for the most part for now.

 

INTERNAL

120 GB SSD Syteme drive Wildfire

4 TB RAID 0 (2-disk)  - Capture footage and PPr and AE projects

2 TB RAID 0 (2-disk)  - Previews and pagefile

 

EXTERNAL

1 TB Buffalo drive eSATA - Stock footage, DVD exports, misc

2 TB GRAID eSATA - Old/Completed projects

 

NAS

2 TB NAS iOmega StorCenter ix2 - Web video storage, backups

     with 1TB USB3 Drive attached additioanl storage

327 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: JustinC123, Apr 17, 2012 9:23 AM
 
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  • Jim Simon
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    1. Jim Simon,
    Apr 16, 2012 8:18 PM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    I personally would just go for good old Windows Explorer and do it manually.

     
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  • Alan Craven
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    2. Alan Craven,
    Apr 16, 2012 11:56 PM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    The free Microsoft Synctoy is very good for this, but it has to be used manually, so you have to be organised.

     
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    3. JustinC123,
    Apr 17, 2012 9:23 AM   in reply to Alex DeJesus
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    I use a free program called EZBackitup and find it works perfectly. It can be run manually or scheduled. I've just completed 6 seperate back up jobs with over 3TB of data and EZBackitup performed flawlessly and without the slightest hitch.

    Even though one of my back up jobs contains 1.5 TB of data, it takes literally a couple of minutes at most to compare the whole lot and add or remove any changed files/folders, etc.

     
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