Archive/backup p2

Hi there,
I've just completed my first p2 project and I'm looking for some advice on archiving. Currently the media is on 3 two-TB drives: one has the original MXF files, one has a MXF backup, and the 3rd has the QT files that I cut with. Is one copy of all of the originals and one copy of media-managed QT files a wise choice? We'd like to erase one drive for the next project.
Thanks for the help. Gobble gobble!

You can only use 2 drives as a simple solution to backup and media managed. To ensure you do have the backup as was described by other posts, which is absolutely correct, all you need to do is purchase something like the Gtech GRaid solution. a 2 TB drive (I know its not big enought for what you said, but its a price i know) has a 2GB storage with a built in 2GB Raided drive for about £200 or prob £250.
This means if your drive does go down.. you at least have the raid to backup on.. (they come with esata) too..
Therefore you can go for a media managed drive (do same again for xtra backup) and have a Original Media Drive.
I am opting to take off card straight onto original media drive (not to be touched)
Then transferring onto bays 3&4 in MacPro to actively work on.
Then Media Managing onto another Drive with final production.
You can then erase the media on Bays 3 and 4 if you like.
Should explain use of bays in MacPro actually...
Bay 1. Operating System (Do not use at all for capture scratch !!)
Bay 2. Active Project Files
Bay 3. Project Footage Storage (already backed up)
Bay 4. Project Footage Storage (already backed up)
3 Steps. 2 Drives. Loads of Backup there.
Message was edited by: Mad Mac Man

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oracle_profile                 /oracle/QBS/920_64/dbs/initQBS.ora
sapdata_home                   /oracle/QBS
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20070528154729 - Archivebackup on [/var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/archive] mounted on [/dev/dsk/c0d0s6]
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20070528154729 - Copying database files to /var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/archive/archive_20070528
20070528154729 -        Copying database file ics50alarms.db to /var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/archive/archive_20070528
20070528154729 - SnapshotDB - Copy failed to /var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/archive/archive_20070528 for ics50alarms.db
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20070528154729 - csstoredExit: Exiting with [-1].any hint?

long time ago, in a galaxy far away...
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You have new mail.
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From [Apple's site|http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html]:
*Timing is everything.*
Every hour, every day, an incremental backup of your Mac is made automatically as long as your backup drive is attached to your Mac. Time Machine saves the hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month.
*Backing up to a full disk.*
One day, no matter how large your backup drive is, it will run out of space. And Time Machine has an action plan. It alerts you that it will start deleting previous backups, oldest first. Before it deletes any backup, Time Machine copies files that might be needed to fully restore your disk for every remaining backup.
So, it depends on the size of your backup disk and what changes are made on the drives that are being backed up by the incremental backups. I mean, 1000 backups may not necessarily take a lot of space. But, once there's no more space, the first backups to go will be the earlier ones; thus likely the one of your external drive.
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