I lost EVERYTHING! My workflow & backing up your photos/videos.

Question: Why have such a complicated file structure? Wouldn't it be better to find files by having a good keytag system… punch in the keytag and bam!

those orange drives look like you could throw em in a pool and they would float 🌊

Going through this now 🙁

Epic! love the organizational level and simplicity in it , thanks! DEFO thumbs up 🙂

Bro you are the best! Learning so much from you ! Thanks so much

I’m still confused on how to transfer the raw photos from my camera onto the external hard drive. That’s my main problem I’m having right now I’m a new photographer I need a little help

Hearing someone who's not in IT talking about RAID makes me giddy.

Personally: I edit off of an internal 1TB drive in my laptop. Then use URBackup on a Dell R710 and MD1000 SAN to create full and incremental backups.

Thanks for the suggestions Peter! Idk why but file systems, backups and storing files is such a major stress factor for me; half the time idk what to do with it all.

So, do you keed an SSD while you edit or you have your current footage on the laptop drive?

Optical media is the only way to store your data for long time because it is not magnetic of like hdd and ssd

LAst week a "ransom virus (Djvu)" kill me, and got my when my external drive was connected to my PC. It get everything. Tengan cuidado…

Love the storage and organization idea. What about using cloud based storage like Dropbox and/or Google Drive or Photo places?

Dude that folder structure is way too intense. Why would you split video and photo on such a lower level when really you would be editing either photos with Lightroom or video with premiere/after effects as the first choice?

"Those 48tb now goes Down to 32gb

What About the megadata?? I think this workflow is not necessary. Name your folder and photo’s. Done.

Love the wisdom, education and insight as always. Thanks for sharing.

Pro tip about dates and file names: the format 20191015 will display your folders in chronological order. Most other date formats will end up being out of order because files are sorted are alphabetically.

Great start… Smacking the hard drives agains each other…

Just happen today! I’m so heart broke!

It seems you've been inspiring other photographer YouTubers with editing ideas. /watch?v=j-_iZA4nvAk

I had a LaCie Raid 1 Drive. 15 years ago. Both drives died on the same day. I lost EVERYTHING. I often think 🤔 what were the odds of that ?

Its so expensive. Im just going to buy a couple 2 TB lacie rugged drives, then buy an Asus BW-16D1H-U Pro External BlueRay Burner and burn the data on double layer 150TB disks that I can backup on some cloud somewhere.
I run Mac, Windows and Linux. Reports are that is works great with Ubuntu and Fedora.

Hey Pete! What would be your recommendation for a starting filmmaker, that has no thousand of dollars for storage?

Amazing – please can I employ you to organise every aspect of my life 😂😂😂- so close to where I am now – with a stack of lacies having just had one fail and no longer feeling intimidated by RAID

Raid is not a Backup!

Thank you; this makes sense to me. Great seeing you at VidSummit!

where do you buy your t shirts bro ?!

Any update to your process and/or your thinking on the subject? Have you lived and learned, or is this still pretty much accurate today? * I'm referring to the hardware and RAID 6 configuration, not your file structure. Thanks.

best thing i heard all week starting at 6:00

Wish I found this video about a month ago..

IMPORTANT: RAID is not a backup. It’s just a slightly better alternative to storing data on individual hard drives, since it can still work if one of the hard drives has a hardware failure. BUT, there are still a bunch of other reasons you could lose data: Fire, flood, burglary, accidental deletion, etc. You MUST go an extra step and use a cloud backup system like Backblaze, Google Drive, or something similar to automatically back up data from your RAID to the cloud. Then, you’ll have your data on the original hard drive, your RAID, and in the cloud. Your chances of losing your data at that point are almost zero.

It's so depressing to loose photos/videos. For me it was my 10 years living in Hawaii that was lost from a crapped out backup drive. Memory don't fail me now! Do you backup to a cloud service (Flickr, Amazon, Google Drive, etc…)?

"If you still lose everything I would recommend to get an electrician to sort out your house power problem"

Anyone else have drive crash stories? What did ya lose? Let's hear em! I lost 2 years of high res photos 🙁 #lessonlearned