Woodman Forum - chat with pierre woodman

Hi Pierre

i was asking myself how you handle all the data you generate by filming. where do you store all of your data? you must have hundreds of hard disks!! did you also digitalize the old material from tape recording? i am into video cutting thats the reason i ask, i am interested in how you manage all this stuff. must be a fulltime job...

best!
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Well yes soon 400 TB now and I haven't digitalized all past videos ...
It's insane !!!

PW

PIERRE WOODMAN wrote:Well yes soon 400 TB now and I haven't digitalized all past videos ...
It's insane !!!

PW

i hope you atleast got some kind backup,like tape drive or nofting similar .....or else you be will ending paying lots money on data recovery service

Having worked in IT for 40 years, I have to add my 2 cents.

1. Keep this Forum and processing your videos on separate systems. There are bad people that would love to wipe out your data. The girls' video files should be marked "read only".

2. In the 1970's, data storage was expensive. Now it is cheap. Keep multiple copies, even if it is 400 TB. In the early days of TV broadcasting on magnetic tape, an NBC vice president decided to save money by using the magnetic tape over and over. So many iconic shows by TV and movie legends were forever lost.

3. An insurance executive told us that the No. 1 reason companies go out of business, is not fire or flood, but loss of data.

4. Use only one piece of security software. That software cruises through your system looking for a virus. If you have 2 security software packages, they both think that the other is a virus, and attack each other. Then, a real virus can sneak in. (It happened to me.)

5. A password like Xx&73Ol is hard to remember. So people write it down and it can get stolen. Use a password that is easy to remember, but nobody knows it. (Maybe your first girlfriend had a pet name for your Dick.)

6. Don't make it too easy. When hackers broke into Asaad's email account, they found that his password was 1234.

I could go on and on, but that is enough for now.

I was not speaking about data of the site !!! Just my personal one ...

PW

Oh, i think he's also Talking about your personal Data....so please Consider what hey is saying so we can enjoy some old scenes we never have seen before...

....but again: how do you manage 400tb??? How many hard disks is that??? Do you have an entire room with hard disks in your house? Jeez....

Today the harddrive are smaller than in past, so it's OK but it has cost me fucking a lot in the last 15 years !!!
I remember in 2002 I bought a Lacie 400 Gb for 1000 euros.
Today you can have 5TB for 150 euros !!!

PW

Anything with moving parts can fail. I had a brand name disk drive that failed. No back up. The web sites that sold the data closed down. So the videos can not be replaced. All my fault.

underdeath21 wrote:
i hope you atleast got some kind backup,like tape drive or nofting similar .....or else you be will ending paying lots money on data recovery service

sounds like a quote from me

PW