We are using this tool to index the archived projects disks and the rushes disks. This tools makes a database with everything what is on this disk. When the disks are being indexed you can search them and you can find out on which disk the data will be.

Three Catalog Files

We have three separate catalog files, one for archived projects, one for archived rushes and for the Rushes Back Up.

The catalog files are stored here:

/Volumes/WEN-STUFF/04_MEDIAMGMT/01_BACKUP-STUFF

Workflow

Whenever rushes come back from set, they are copied to the server as well as to the ‘rushes koffer’. Then once a project is done, the rushes are copied to two rushes archive disks (A&B) and the project is copied to two project archive disks (A&B). The B drives are stored externally.

<aside> ⚠️ At all times it is crucial to have two copies on two different locations.

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When the rushes have been archived to the two archive disks, we can remove the copy from the ‘rushes koffer’. Whenever you adjust content on a drive, you must scan the drive in the catalog file so it is always up to date.