[QLab] Primary and Back Up Set up.

[Michael McDermott]

Sorry Noah I missed some of what you had to say.  Sometimes the  
events I'm on are in rehearsal up until doors.  They even make  
changes to cues and the order of the shows up until doors and  
sometimes during the show.  The flexibility of software driven  
devices like this are great since I can change the show to meet the  
demands of my clients.  Plus equipment does fail during a show and  
when the show or event I'm on is heavily playback driven there is no  
excuse for not having an identical back up to go to.

Oddly enough it just hit me that maybe an airport disk system is the  
way to go.  If the airport did fail I could just plug the drives  
right into the machine directly and go for broke!  Gigabit is a fine  
speed for streaming audio over LAN, if anything USB 2.0 would be the  
choke.

Is anyone running cues over network drives like this?  Is the  
response of playback as fast as it is with the files living on the  
systems direct hard drive?


On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Noah Mehl wrote:

> I think the best thing for you to do, it setup a linux server that
> serves AFP to both machines.  If you ran this over gigabit ethernet,
> you would have technically more bandwith than a firewire external.
> Add raid 5 redundancy to the server, and if you wanted, multiple
> gigabit ethernet cards for more bandwidth.  How does that sound?
>
>>
>> This isn't too complex to me but it seems like there could be an
>> easier way to do this and here in lies my question.  Is there an
>> easier way to make this happen?  Are there many of you out there
>> using primary and back up situations like this or are you flying by
>> the seat of your pants with only one machine?
>
> In the theatre world, you would check the system before opening the
> show.  If it doesn't work, you'd copy the show files to the backup
> computer.  Pre-show checks allow for enough time to do that.  Plus,
> the possibility of a catastrophic failure during a show is very, very
> low.
>
> ~Noah
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