Great idea Jay. We actually use S3 for other business backups; I have just gone brain dead on the Beach Walks video files. It's not like me to be chicken little, and really, the much bigger problem would be all the broken links if we had to recreate our back catalog on a different server. Thanks everyone for the info on this thread - tho I am late posting this comment.
R On Feb 7, 2008 4:29 AM, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Roxanne Darling "o ke kai" means "of the sea" in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video --> http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- > http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter--> http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
