Davinci Resolve Archive Strategy?

NickZ2016 wrote:

I'd wander over to the BlackMagic Resolve forum. Plenty of working pros.

I'd ask do you really need to archive? Most people aren't going to redo old projects.

Thanks,

I've had mixed results on the BM forum.

I don't expect to redo any old projects but more to archive source material. I recently was asked by a local TV station for original source clips from a production we did a year ago. Just nice to have access to it.

Jones

JonesLongShot wrote:

A question for those of you that use Davinci Resolve. What is your strategy for archiving your projects?

I keep it all, whether it's actually been used in the project or not.  It's only the spoiled clips that I delete.  I have one folder tree for active projects with per-project folders below that, and then when I finish a project I export it to a ".DRP" file so that I can delete it from Resolve's database and then move the project's folder tree over into a second folder tree that I keep for archived projects.

Both active and archive folders are on my online data drive, which is backed up using weekly and offsite monthly cycles.  I'm in the process of upgrading from 8TB online and backup drives to 16TB drives because I'm probably going to run out of space on the 8TB drive within a year or so.

Sean Nelson wrote:

I keep it all, whether it's actually been used in the project or not. It's only the spoiled clips that I delete. I have one folder tree for active projects with per-project folders below that, and then when I finish a project I export it to a ".DRP" file so that I can delete it from Resolve's database and then move the project's folder tree over into a second folder tree that I keep for archived projects.

Both active and archive folders are on my online data drive, which is backed up using weekly and offsite monthly cycles. I'm in the process of upgrading from 8TB online and backup drives to 16TB drives because I'm probably going to run out of space on the 8TB drive within a year or so.

Thanks for the answer. That isn't far from what I'm currently doing. For some reason I can't bring myself to delete source clips. And like you, I am beginning to run out of space on my 8TB drive. This stuff builds up so fast.

It sounds like the most important thing I can do is be vigilant about creating the project archive and moving that onto my archive drive. That would give me the option to delete the source from the working space.

Thanks again, for now I'll keep on with this approach (maybe modify it to be more like yours) and see how it goes.

Jones

JonesLongShot wrote:

Thanks for the answer. That isn't far from what I'm currently doing. For some reason I can't bring myself to delete source clips. And like you, I am beginning to run out of space on my 8TB drive. This stuff builds up so fast.

Many, many years ago I attended a marketing presentation from a Digital Equipment Corporation storage specialist. He recounted a story about someone who downloaded a printer driver. Those were the days of 300 baud dialup modems, and it took over an hour to download it. After all that time, he installed it and discovered that it was the wrong one, so he had to spend another hour downloading the proper version.

"And do you think he deleted that bad driver?", the presenter asked the audience. "No d@mn way! He spent an hour of his life downloading that driver, there was no way he was going to delete that sucker!".

The presenter looked over the audience, smiled, and said "I love the storage business!".