Our studio's server went down mid-project last Tuesday and we lost 6 hours of work

Was exporting a final cut for a client in Portland and the whole thing just froze. Turns out our network drive had been failing for weeks and nobody noticed the warnings. Had to re-record a voiceover session and redo all the color grading from scratch. Cost us a full day and a lot of stress. Has anyone else dealt with a surprise server crash and found a good backup solution that actually works?

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fiona_lewis3718d ago

You have been through it, huh? That sounds like an absolute nightmare and I feel for you. Honestly losing a whole day of work because nobody caught the drive warnings is the kind of thing that makes you want to throw a monitor out the window. I have seen stuff like that happen before and it always hits harder when you have a client waiting on you. For real backups, the only thing that has ever worked for me is having two separate physical hard drives and one cloud backup running all at once. It costs a bit more but when your main drive dies you just swap over and keep going.

kellymurphy18d ago

Three drives seems like a lot of overhead when most consumer drives will run for years without failing. How often does your main drive actually die on you? Real question.