Maintain an archive of digital media.

Maintenance should include

  • backing up projects for long-term storage using file-management techniques
  • placing projects on designated media storage devices (e.g., external hard drive, redundant array of inexpensive drives [RAID] server, web server, universal serial bus [USB])
  • creating a digital portfolio for all media files.

Process/Skill Questions:

  • What are the benefits of developing and maintaining a portfolio of digital media files?
  • What are ways to manage files and methods of backing them up?
  • What is the correlation between file size and memory?