Proper Back Up workflow

Rob Sackyta

• July 18, 2011 22:32

So I am relatively new to capture one. And I have a question regarding workflow. So throughout the course of a work week our studio sometime will have a couple of shoots for the same client forcing us to update our backups. After the shoot we backup to 2 different hard drives. Keeping the working copy on the computers drive. So here's the question. When backing up the working copy on the computer to the "safe" drives. What is the safe and proper procedure to back up the shoot folder.

I have been copying over new files in the capture and output as well as the .col file and capture one file in the capture folder. But it seems clunky and I think there might be a better way.

What about overwriting the safe drives with the new CO folder. Is that good or bad? Don't want to lose files or corrupt them.

Any help would be great.

Rob

Ps newest version of COP. And snow leopard.

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  Rob Sackyta

  • July 20, 2011 00:19

  Anyone

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  rap_digital

  • July 20, 2011 03:17

  Look at carbon copy cloner or chronosync.
  I use CCC and have a saved scheduled a incremental backup that keeps BackupA and BackupB the same and then after every shot ie. every couple hundred frames while we are setting up the next shot I run another task that does a incremental backup of LiveShootDriveA to BackupA.
  
  I generally dont use the "delete items that dont exist on source" option so that if I mistakenly delete a file after a backup it will stay on the backup sets, But, doning this means that your backup set will always be bigger and if you move or rename between backups you'll have the old name files and the new. Not a problem with my workflow just means I need more space and thats cheap.
  
  One Slightly annoying thing with CCC is if you are shooting to your operating system drive then the backup will have all the folders to the root ie. /users/shared/Jobs/todaysSession.
  
  Not a problem for me as I never shoot to the OS drive 😂

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • July 20, 2011 09:02

  [quote="Rob372" wrote:
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  What about overwriting the safe drives with the new CO folder. Is that good or bad? Don't want to lose files or corrupt them.

  
  I don't see any harm in that.

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  Rob Sackyta

  • July 31, 2011 00:18

  Anyone else?

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