Storage and Backup

sndhse · Post by **sndhse** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:55 am

Hi everyone. I recently had a hard drive crash (head crash) it was sent to 2 places for Data recovery, but to no avail. 85% of the drive was backed up.
My question is, your thoughts on backing up practices and this.
http://www.lacie.com/caen/products/prod ... ?pid=10490

John

Splinter · Post by **Splinter** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:06 am

I backup to tape (VXA), if my client opts for this, or FW drive after every session. The tape does incremental backups using Retrospect Desktop and I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do synced backups to an external drive. I'm kicking myself for spending thousands on my tape drive because it is slow, but when I bought it 6 years ago storage was still quite expensive. FW drives for backup are now the cheap and easy solution, though tape is very reliable and you can backup incrementally.

lueds00 · Post by **lueds00** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:20 pm

You can pick up a Lacie F.A. Porche 250GB Firewire Hard Drive at buy.com for $140 These little drives are great!

Simon Pure · Post by **Simon Pure** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:52 pm

Are you guys using that particular drive(the Lacie) for recording direct? I'm wondering if you would want to use something else for straight recording so you don't have to use the internal drive.

Is the Lacie strictly for backup? What stats on an external drive determine whether it's suitable for recording?...as opposed to simply backup.

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:35 am

I record audio straight to my external Lacie drive and it works great its got 'super' firewire (Cant remember what its called and i'm not at work)
I noticed a huge difference when I started using it as previous to that I had only been using one hard drive(the internal one) to do everything..(very bad)

lueds00 · Post by **lueds00** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:35 pm

I usually run DP on my main drive and use my second internal drive to record to. Then I use the Lacie Drive for backup. That way if anything goes wrong with your main drive (this HAS happen to me before) you won••™t lose all of your work. Lastly, I save everything to DVD as addition backup (call me paranoid). I just picked up Toast Titanium 7 and although I haven••™t tried it yet, it claims to allow you to span data over several discs. That way if you have projects that are larger that 4.7GB (or 8GB dual layer) you can save it all at once.

External drives are also a great way to share projects with a friend or send to your mastering house.

I••™ve have also used the Lacie drive on projects and it seems to work just fine.

sndhse · Post by **sndhse** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:28 pm

Just thought I would let you all know that the drive that died on me was a Lacie D2 Triple interface 160Gb. 13 months old. I will say that Lacie support has been great. The problem was not Lacie, it was the drive in the Lacie. Western Digital. In talking with the techs at the data recovery facillities (http://www.cdrdatarecovery.com/) and (http://www.cbltech.com/)
The have all noticed an increase of WD drives coming across their tables. Not sure what this all means, and I'm not one to jump to any conclusions, it's all just information I wanted to pass on.

John

Splinter · Post by **Splinter** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:27 pm

Interesting, because it used to be WD was the one to use for their reliability. Quality control must be slipping.

sndhse · Post by **sndhse** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:47 pm

I don't want to give anyone the impression that this is common place for WD. It could have been a bad drive from the start, or a bad run of drives at that time. I have no info on the other drives that the tech people talked about. Were they the same size? When were they built? How old are they? In what circumstances did they breakdown? etc...
All of this has made me re-evaluate and question my current backup practices.

John

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