Art and Media Storage

[Jay_Jay]

Hi all,

 

Looking at a plan for the above departments, with Art they do photography, graphics etc and with Media they use Final Cut studio and Adobe In-design so files will be quite large.

So far I am thinking of getting a SAN where they can save these files to, but not sure how to go about the backing up part.

I would;t want to backup all this data along with our current backup system as I think it would take far to long.

What have other schools done to accommodate this and how are they backing up and archiving all this data?

 

Thanks

Jay

[Stuart_C]

I'm winingin it at the minute. Currently our art department have 150GB of the 6th form and 150 for the lower school. Being a small school it works out at about 3GB per student JUST for their art. It does run very full but when I look at it there is a lot of duplication and issues where they have over 100 photo's then duplicate them into work/research and don't delete teh unwanted ones.

 

It backus up as normal onto my NAS.

[pete]

Media have a dedicated small nas in their Dept for backups, since they have a habit of spraying multiple-gig .dv files everywhere otherwise. (Copy local, work on file, copy back).

 

Art are in the main backups still and it's not too onerous atm.

[Jay_Jay]

Thanks for the comments so far, I'm going to get a SAN for Art and Media and setup a backup tape drive I have which runs LTO3 tapes using Windows backup.