An issue a lot of video creators run into, including myself,
is what do you do with all this video footage
that you've amassed over time?
Do you just dump it on external hard drives and call it good,
or do you have a cloud storage service
that you should upload it to?
How do you archive and keep all this stuff for future use?
I'm going to show you guys what I do.
That's coming up.
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Hey guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer.
And it's Thursday, which means it's time for some YouTube Q&A
with you guys.
Matthew Dykstra asks this.
What is the best way to back up all of the data?
Raw and edited.
Is it hard drive?
Is it DVD?
Is it cloud storage?
And what is the best cloud storage?
Great question, Matthew.
I don't know that there's one right answer to this,
but I'll tell you what I do.
Personally, I dump everything onto an external hard drive.
I usually don't keep all the raw footage.
I just keep the final product that
ends up getting uploaded to YouTube.
Because I find that I access those files often enough
to warrant having a local copy of them
on an external hard drive.
But I don't just want them on a hard drive,
because what if that hard drive fails
or what if there's a fire, or what if I spill my drink on it
or something like that?
To mitigate those risks, I use Backblaze to also
automatically back-up my entire computer
and all my external hard drives to use a cloud-based service
where it just holds everything for me.
If I ever need to go get something from there,
I can just go get it.
And for the price I pay-- it's like $50 a year
for unlimited data storage-- I think it's a really great value
to just keep everything, like every digital file
that I have, just backed up in the cloud.
And even if my entire computer crashes, all I have to do
is get my new computer and just re-sync it to that, and boom,
I got my entire computer back.
There's a lot of these computer back-up cloud-based services
out there, but I use Backblaze because it's the only one
that I found that doesn't throttle my upload speed.
I found a couple other ones I've tried,
like it was going to take a year and a half
for me to actually upload all my content to the service
because they only let it trickle to their servers
at a slow pace.
But Backblaze doesn't do that.
It let's me send my data to them as quickly as I can.
Plus, I have an iPhone app that makes it really easy to access
all my files, even from my phone if I wanted to share them,
even though they're not on my phone,
I can just-- it's just really cool.
If you want to find out more about,
if I have a link in the description text below.
You can click and go check it out.
So with that set up, I feel like I've got everything local
on an external hard drive for easy quick access,
and then I also have everything beamed backed-up to the Cloud.
Safe and secure.
If my entire computer crashes or hard drive fails, or whatever.
So I feel like that's a good system for me.
A couple of other recommendations
that I know lot of people use-- there's Amazon storage service.
They have two that a lot of people would use for this.
First of all, S3, and also their Glacier Service.
And both of these are attractive cloud-based options
because they let you store all your files on their server
and you only pay for what you're actually using.
Their S3 service starts at around $0.10 per gig per month,
and it's great because it lets you upload and download
and transfer as much data as often as you'd like,
all throughout the month.
And their Glacier Service is only one penny
per gig per month, which is super affordable.
But you also pay to transfer data back and forth
so it works perfect if you have a lot of video footage
that you're probably not going to need for a year or two,
three years or ever.
But you want to keep it somewhere
so you can just dump it there and just leave it.
Links to both of the Amazon services
are below so go check those out if you're interested.
But I would love to hear from you guys.
How do you back up all your video footage?
Do you have a combination like I do between external hard drives
and Cloud-based storage, or do you just use one or the other,
or what?
The res of you guys, if you're looking for some other options
other than what I suggested here, go read the comments
and see what other people are saying down there.
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below this video where you can submit your video to me just
like Matthew did.
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