Just wondering if there's another way to archive my largish projects on a Mac. I'm about to upgrade the computer that handles this work (probably to a Mac Mini M2) so now is a good time to weigh my options.
Jobs range from 5-20TB, each job is in its own folder that is then archived to a collective Media Set. At the moment, the archives are kept on hard drives that I keep offline.
The best feature for me is that I can search the Media Set for the offline files I want to restore and easily grab just those files. I need to do this for less than 5% of my jobs so it's great when it works, but not worth spending $ on solutions with ongoing costs.
But retrospect occasionally needs to rebuild the catalog which significantly slows down the process. I also have a mild concern that the archive format is not plainly readable.