Hi Martin,
There are several key factors which I'll highlight below BUT there is lots more detail elsewhere. Also I have never heard about files eating themselves.... maybe they are referring to the dangers of storing data in one place and are worried about this being corrupted... but eating sounds way more fun way to describe
1 - Total storage needed, for how long, will it need to be accessed during this period or is purely for backup?
2- Network capacity to upload and download the material, most networks will struggle on this point so you need to seek advice from your network provider
3- will you want to work 'live' on any of this material if so see point 2.
4- what security level do you require the data to be stored at?
8 TB is actually fairly small these days and an obvious solution I'd consider is....
1 - buy 10TB of external hard-drive in either 1 or 2TB chunks. Back up everything using a proper copying tool (which checks the data is there)
2 buy another 10TB and copy point 1 - this will be a backup in case any of '1' is destroyed or damaged (hard drives only last about 5 years as a rule of thumb). NEVER STORE both backups on the same site.
3 - if you have the budget then also store on a cloud provider. In the UK I would first pursue https://www.gov.uk/how-to-use-cloudstore and that store is great to get costings and see the key issues. Amazon cloud E2 may be an option also but you may need to use Europe only data centres
Shout if I can be of any further help - I was looking into this last year for a similar project and also now looking at 1000TB options...
As for the interviews then get them to send a hard drive...
Yes there are tons of other smarter ways but the above has proven to work for me over the last 10 years without lots of bother and I know the risks of the above and weigh em up... Put the G-Cloud costings into the HLF bid as they accept this (if they didn't cost this into the budget then I'd suggest running and hiding ha)
Zak Mensah
Head of Digital
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
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Subject: [MCG] Cloud storage for archiving film
Dear all
I am working on an HLF project and have been asked for advice about online storage for archive film clips and newly created films. I am aware of some cloud storage options but the issue in this case (see below) is the high volume of storage required, meaning that ongoing costs could be quite high. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Martin
PS I quite like the notion that digital files have to 'keep moving' otherwise they 'eat themselves' ...
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Please could I ask you a couple of other questions about our film archive?
· Firstly, I urgently need to back up all our High Res files. I've been advised that Cloud Storage may be the best solution for this because digital files need to 'keep moving' otherwise they 'eat themselves' and you lose all your data. This has somewhat frightened me so I'd like to get everything backed-up as soon as possible!! However, the total size of our High Res files is 8.13TB - so not a small task...
· Secondly, the Regional Officers need to send me copies of their interviews so I can back them up here. One of these files alone could be 30GB so again, no small task.
I have spoken to Dropbox for Business who can give us unlimited storage space but would not be a long term storage solution as too costly. Would be £431 for all our officers to access the dropbox until end of March 2015 so would only solve problem of transferring files.
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Martin Bazley & Associates
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