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I had a feeling when recommending the tape backup – the only other then that I could figure would be two SAN system's one that you archive to – and one that you replicate that archive and keep in a safe off-site location. If you are not editing from these drives then you can get away with less expensive drive with larger capacity. I'd also make sure it's a RAID 5 solution so that you can rebuild (would even put in a hot spare). Also it's not impossible to build your own RAID box these day – a few years ago there was a great write up of John Flowers doing such (if I recall correctly).

As a media weenie – It occurred to me that we need to be giving clients complete backups of projects. I've done this a few times by simply buying a cute little USB drive and dumping everything on there.

I've never lost a client I wanted to keep buy giving them all the raw material – but some of you may want to consider this. Some savvy clients might decide to cut their next project themselves. It's not happened to me, because my clients are unable to replicate the things I do for them that exceed the raw footage.

Alternatively – keep that backup all on it;s own drive, and charge the client for the drive as part of the expendable budget on the job. Drives are now cheaper than BetacamSP tapes, I can't see anyone complaining. Be upfront, it's part of the cost of doing the job safely. I keep all the original footage, transcode to Cineform for editing and keep them in separate drives.

I've often told clients to "keep this safe, it's your only backup in case I get killed by a falling duck (it's a very real risk on the current project)"

On the subject of backup machines – instead of cannibalizing your old NLE for an upgrade, spend the extra $400 to get newer, faster, more reliable parts and software – and keep the old machine running shotgun. It's great to have 2 machines, even if one is slower, when you are rendering multiple projects.

Brad – that LTO will cost me 6 Million Pacific Pesos, or the cost of a small used car. Any other suggestions?

Here's the down side of a Tape based solution – it's going to cost a serious amount of green. A 6.4Tb LVD will set you back aroun $4,300 this for a Tape library (auto-loader). This is what HP consider their entry-level automated backup solution.

As to backup NLEs man I'm all ears there as I know most people have invested in their one machine – and when (not if) that goes down, it's a bad time!!!

And just for grins…who has a backup NLE strategy for when your box gets totaled and you still need to earn? Got a real power protection scheme? Got somewhere to go with all those backup drives? As a Vegas user, I keep one old machine ready to go, 'cause there are NO other Vegas users within an hours drive…there may not be any in New Zealand other than me haha!

Regardless of what system you're on – there is a viable system of backing up your system.

I also look to the guys who say that they are using them – like Stu Maschwitz ( http://prolost.com/blog/2007/12/8/prolost-holiday… ) just to name one…

The 3 copies thing is true, if you don't have Local, On-Site, and Off-Site you don't have a true backup. The day of could computing gave us the ability to use products like Mozy to do our off-site, but if you don't have the broadband and it would take months to get a full off-site via your connection – you might need to look to a LTO or DLT tape backup solution that you can keep some on-site, and some in a safe off-site (like at a bank). This isn't going to be as inexpensive as a SaaS solution as you have to pay for the hardware too, but it will give you a rock solid way to do it. Also remember that tapes age – and you'll have to change them out over the years.

In building your 3 x 1.5 TB RAID – I'd go with a Drobo and use fast drives (not green) if you plan to edit from these drives, if it's just Backup Storage – then go green. The Green drive are slow, but great for plain storage.