So after 4 years of working on the Guillermo del Toro movie Pinocchio I can start the process of archiving hundreds of terabytes of data. This is the part of the production that people very rarely budget for or even want to discuss since they are already on to the next production that is either started or they are trying to get started. And no one ever wants to budget the expense of long term digital archival. It’s just not a sexy thing to think about. That is until they need some files for some marketing or promotion in a couple of years and then they’re asking why everything is not available instantly.
With a production like Pinocchio that was being created during COVID we had to use multiple servers as well as cloud storage services to support on-prem and off-site work. So the wrangling of all of this data was pretty challenging in keeping track of everything as well as grabbing data belonging to different users in their individual cloud storage.