Workflows
Common setups
Opinionated setups for how people actually use Tusk day to day.
The same questions come up whenever someone backs up creative work for a living: how many drives, when to delete locally, how to label things, how to set up cloud, how to find a file from a project that finished a year ago. The answers depend on what kind of work you do.
Below is a longer persona guide when you want the full opinionated path, plus short quick-reference cards for common setups.
Persona guides
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Quick reference: setup at a glance
The persona page covers one path in detail. The cards below are the bullet version of common setups.
Video editor
1
Point Tusk at your footage folder, or your DaVinci Resolve / Premiere project folder if you want to track project files too.
2
Add your backup SSD as a local destination and Google Drive, Dropbox, or S3 for an offsite copy.
3
Keep working normally. When a project wraps and you want to free up space, use Delete Local in Tusk. It only allows deletion once every copy is verified.
Photographer
1
Create a project per shoot, or per client if your client volume is high.
2
Tusk can hold the catalog and the raws in the same project; both get backed up.
3
Add at least one local drive and one cloud destination so a stolen laptop never costs you a wedding gallery.
On-set offload
1
Plug in the SD card. In Tusk, open sidebar Offload and start a New offload with the source set to the card (or use Offload on a project if you want ongoing tracking).
2
Pick at least two destinations (one local SSD, one cloud) so the offload writes to both at once.
3
Wait for verification to finish before reformatting the card. Standalone Offload shows Verified / All copies verified; project Offload shows a clear Done state when every copy is checksum-verified.