Video Data preservation

Data Preservation - Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life. Learn about how Best Made Videos® helps protect your memories so that they can last forever! See our step by step process below for how I go about backing up, protecting and storing your wedding video data.

Learn about My process for protecting your wedding videos!

pexels-photo-89724.jpeg

STEP 1:

  • Following your wedding day, I immediately copy over your raw wedding video data onto our computer for editing as well as an external SSD for a second layer of backup protection.

Step 2: 

  • Your wedding data is also copied over onto an external Western Digital hard drive where it is stored in a fireproof safe until I have delivered your edited wedding video.

disc-reader-reading-arm-hard-drive.jpg

Step 3:

  • In addition to copying your wedding data to our hard drives, your wedding video data is also immediately uploaded to our cloud storage service which also serves as my means for delivering your final edited wedding videos.

Step 4:

  • Following the delivery of your wedding videos, your data is copied back onto two external hard drives (original and backup copy) where it is stored in our fireproof safe even after delivery of your final edited wedding videos.

music-sound-audio-recording.jpg

Step 5:

  • Once each external hard drive has been filled, I copy that footage over to two different LTO-6 backup tapes. LTO or " Linear Tape-Open" is a tape-based backup system that is designed for 15-30 years of archival storage (compared to 3 years for a traditional disk-based backup solution). I keep two sets of LTO tape backups for each calendar year, one set is stored locally in my fireproof safe, and the other set is stored off-site at a secured location.

 

So why does any of this matter???

Your wedding day can never be replicated or replaced.  The memories from that day and the footage that captures them are of paramount importance to me as a business owner.  I take the utmost care in protecting your data so it will exist for you always.  I know of no other local wedding videography company that spends the time, energy, and money to protect your investment as I do. 

I shoot over 30 weddings every year as well as countless live events.  My clients, both corporate and wedding, rely on me to make sure their footage is properly taken care of from start to finish. This is what I do for a living.

I want to make sure your wedding footage is accessible to you forever!  Computers die, hard drives fail, and as we move into an age where everything is stored digitally, we all need to be diligent about backing up the things that matter to us the most.  

*Although no guarantees can be made, I believe this process gives me the best chance to retrieve your wedding video footage should anything ever happen to your footage after it is delivered to you.  *A $500 data retrieval fee will be applied should you need to access your footage after the 6-month download window following delivery of your wedding video.  This covers the cost and time associated with accessing my tape archival system and pulling out the necessary files.