How do you manage moderation video storage?

[MkII]

Our English department want to archive videos of pupils GCSE aural tests for 3 years (for resits/ recalls).

 

Our average year group is 80 pupils. The tests are a 5 minute speech and a 10 to 15 minute group discussion.

 

The staff want to save all of that footage onto 4 x 128gb SD cards from 2 cameras (my guesstimate: 3 minutes per GB @1080p x 60fps = nearly 6 1/2 hours on 128gb).

 

They have the option to upload the videos to j2e.

I think this data being quite important should be backed up.

 

Very interested to hear what other schools do.

Thanks

Edited November 20, 2018 by MkII

[3s-gtech]

We built a separate RAID on a host for this job (free slots in the host helped). We then added this to an existing VM and added it as a DFS share. Not replicated, but is backed up to a capacious NAS. Retention is managed by folder naming/organisation e.g. The 2018-19 root folder gets deleted in 2022. Working well so far (one year in).

[MkII]

We built a separate RAID on a host for this job (free slots in the host helped). We then added this to an existing VM and added it as a DFS share. Not replicated, but is backed up to a capacious NAS. Retention is managed by folder naming/organisation e.g. The 2018-19 root folder gets deleted in 2022. Working well so far (one year in).

Great, thanks [emoji106]

Do staff copy files there themselves? What do you record on? do you or they compress those videos at any stage?

[3s-gtech]

They can put them there directly, from either iPads or HD camcorders that we have, or we'll do it if asked. I don't compress them by default, but easy to do a sweep of older files and compress by batch.

[FN-GM]

They record on cameras here and the videos go straight onto Google Drive. We don't have storage limits issues so it provides flex-ability to staff.

 

There is a backup of Drive as well as the vault so there should be no issue with loosing data.

[MYK-IT]

If you have Office 365 for Education, there are (many) potential options: (we are currently investigating implementing something similar too.)

 

- Use a dedicated One Drive

- Use a Document Library within SharePoint Site

- Use Microsoft Streams

 

Additionally, create and apply a suitable Retention Period (Label) policy (e.g. 3 years)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/retention-policies

 

So even if an end-user deletes a file, you can still search, locate and recover it for at least the duration of the the defined retention period, and more.

[MkII]

If you have Office 365 for Education

 

Yes we do

[TIOAOA]

We do the same as @FN-GM - straight to Google Drive

 

Out of curiosity and not wanting to derail this thread @FN-GM what do you use to backup Google drive ?

[FN-GM]

We do the same as @FN-GM - straight to Google Drive

 

Out of curiosity and not wanting to derail this thread @FN-GM what do you use to backup Google drive ?

 

Google Drive has a built in backup with 20 day retention. - https://support.google.com/a/answer/6052340?hl=en