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

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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

Digital heritage consultant

Martin Bazley & Associates

15 Margin Drive

Wimbledon

SW19 5HA

0780 3580 727

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