Your Studio's Asset Management
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- rocha
For those of you in a multi-person, multi-computer studio, how do you manage your work and assets? A file server? A whole bunch of SMB shares? Daily backups to a big phat external hard disk? Heaps of CD-R's? 5ΒΌ inch disks (j/k)?
- Redmond0
Weekly back-ups on dvd disks.
- Tyrone0
Apple Xserve. Firewire drive for back up of server and client comps.
- BonSeff0
dvd's
- ER0
repository location on server after project completion. IT manages the backups from there. i think its daily or weekly on tape.
- mrdobolina0
Tyrone is always managing assets.
- rocha0
How about when a project is active? SMB Shares?
- ER0
we dont have a very good process for active projects.
we have shares on the server for resources and file contribution but no one is very thorough with this. eventually there is stuff locally that needs to find its place in the archive later.
- bostonflash0
Print out the pinary code and store it in fireproof crates in a cavernous underground warehouse.
If we lose files we send it to India to have the files recompiled by hand by children working in DOS.
- unknown0
This guy:
- rocha0
Lololololololol
I hate to admit it but that was amoung the funniest things I have ever seen. Do you have any more pictures of that man?
- Nirvous0
Here is what we have:
1 central file server cluster for all client assets. You check out a file from the server and use a local copy while the original stays on the server. When it is approved it then replaces the original file unless someone else has it checked out at the time.
All files are backed up each night onto a seperate hot-swap hard drive (200 gig) and removed from the main server.Users can also use the server through a VPN. The cost for an entry level IP based SAN starts around 15k. Fibre goes into the 100k range. We use an IP based system with a hardware firewall and hardware VPN. The SAN switch router is software based.
- Tyrone0
mrdobolina......damn right I am. Keep those assets in check. My assets pimp hand is strong.