> Our challenge is a bulk factor: having over 580 episodes, with an average > of > 2-4 file formats per episode. > So Charles, for you, my question was more to discuss this in the "thinking > out loud" mode. > I would hope that your servers are running frequent backups. > I would hope that if blip appeared to be heading south, we would be > contacted in advance to collect (aka download) our assets. > Right now we only have an FTP drop box, not 2-way FTP access, so this would > be a cumbersome manual task of downloading that could take days > conceivably.
I also have confidence in blip.tv, but dont know if they are a "backup" system. as Jared said, thats why they let us crosspost to the Archive (which i take full advantage of). But if you want a real backup system, you should get an account at Amazon S3. Storage is cheap as dirt...and its pretty easy to manage files. 15-cents per GB used each month http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3 If you arent serving your own videos, then it'd be cheap cheap. Lots of people are using it for backups. One example. http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007624.html Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
