Carlos E. R. wrote:
They are quite large files. Even if you only change the name of a video file sized one gigabyte, the incremental backup program will save a full copy of that file, for instance. The next day he edits the tittles of an scene, and bang, it would save the whole file again.
If the video editing takes, say, a week, he may backup the huge temporary files to another internal disk, temporarily, and then save the final product to the final media and/or permanent backup. A typical automated backup would save useless terabytes of data.
two things: original dv video is si hudge backing it up on usual media is impossible (12Gb one hour and I have 6 in work!), the best backup there is an other dv tape if the video is important enough. the video application uses temporary files of the same size of the final dvd (4.5 Gb a dvd, 9 Gb for the hole files). I made 4 dvd the same week, and need to keep the files as long as I may edit the result. 4 x 9 Gb more of course, no incremental is meaningfull here. If I had money enough I would buy a raid 5 terabyte system, but it's not yet cheap enough (will come soon, I've seen a 1Tb (2x500Gb) usb drive for €300. but this is only temporary backup, once the final dvd is done I keep only the video_ts folder jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org