sharke
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The life saving powers of GOBBLER
So very recently I had a Sonar related catastrophe...a project file that I'd been working on for weeks got truncated to a measly 51K. Don't know how it happened, more than likely a very unlucky crash while saving. Opening it presented me with a completely empty project. 95% of the project is MIDI so it wasn't as if I could have just reassembled it from the audio. I immediately opened Gobbler to see what was in my account. There it was, the same truncated file...of course. So yeah, that feeling of complete and utter horror, denial, shock, rage, sadness etc. Until I remembered Gobbler's version history. I opened it up....lo and behold, a version from about a half hour before the truncated one. YAY. Nothing like the feeling of relief you get 30 seconds after you were sure that you'd lost hundreds of hours of work forever. I used to back up to disk regularly before Gobbler, but to be honest sometimes I forgot...it's just so great to know that Gobbler has my back covered automatically. If you're not using it yet then get it working without delay!
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JonD
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 3:06 AM
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Hey, that's what I like to hear.... and (unlike me) you had the foresight to give Gobbler a try - good for you! I'm going to have to look into this now. Sharke, did you manage with the bundled (free) Gobbler, or have you upgraded to a package with more cloud space?
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Splat
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 5:39 AM
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Well I wish I could have the same facility saving to my server rather than somebody else's.
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sharke
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 9:21 AM
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JonD Hey, that's what I like to hear.... and (unlike me) you had the foresight to give Gobbler a try - good for you! I'm going to have to look into this now. Sharke, did you manage with the bundled (free) Gobbler, or have you upgraded to a package with more cloud space?
I'm just using the free Gobbler. Haven't found the need to upgrade yet although that may change in the future.
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sharke
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 9:26 AM
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CakeAlexS Well I wish I could have the same facility saving to my server rather than somebody else's.
Yeah me too...I looked into something like that to sync document folders I wanted to keep synced without having to use Googe Drive or Sky Drive. Surely there must be something which could keep everything synced to your own server or even your own domain space (I have unlimited space with HostGator)? Alas all I could find was some complicated console based app which ran from the command line and looked complicated. That was a few years ago, maybe there's something better now? What I really want is something like FileZilla but with automatic real time or scheduled folder syncing.
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 9:40 AM
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Me too! I have restored a prior version from Gobbler. I think I'm hooked.
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Paul P
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 10:51 AM
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CakeAlexS Well I wish I could have the same facility saving to my server rather than somebody else's.
I've used an open source sync'ing program called Synkron for years. I sync to SD cards for small stuff and different hard drives for the big stuff. I haven't tried it across a network but I don't see how it wouldn't work just as well if the permissions are setup properly. The program requires attention be paid to the options, especially the "propagate deletions" which is off by default.
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dke
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 1:59 PM
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CakeAlexS Well I wish I could have the same facility saving to my server rather than somebody else's.
Windows 8 File History would probably be a candidate for this as well, I can't remember if Windows 7 had it or not but I think it did. There are other solutions as well. Dan
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Splat
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 2:07 PM
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Well remember it's not just the file, it's what is contained within the whole project folder that needs to be backed up and rolled back. And all these files within the folder need to be renameable,deletable and rollbackable by revision. . Ideally the UI for the file management should happen in Sonar itself. As simple as possible.
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ampfixer
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 25, 13 3:41 PM
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I use the version options within Sonar and keep the last 20 versions on a separate disk. It's saved me a couple times and is really useful when you want to look back at a previous version.
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 26, 13 3:14 AM
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I use FreeFileSync, which isn't fully "real time" automatic but you can set up batch saves and schedule them via Windows scheduler. Great program that saves me a ton of time when I'm working on projects between laptop and studio system.
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 26, 13 4:32 AM
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sharke
CakeAlexS Well I wish I could have the same facility saving to my server rather than somebody else's. Yeah me too...I looked into something like that to sync document folders I wanted to keep synced without having to use Googe Drive or Sky Drive. Surely there must be something which could keep everything synced to your own server or even your own domain space (I have unlimited space with HostGator)? Alas all I could find was some complicated console based app which ran from the command line and looked complicated. That was a few years ago, maybe there's something better now? What I really want is something like FileZilla but with automatic real time or scheduled folder syncing. I just went searching and found a nice link to 17 Online Synch Tools, and pulled Duplicati from that list to test. If you have your own host site, this will access it via FTP and encrypt all files it uploads. I tested it out with a small job and it works rather nicely. From what I can see, you can select folders you want to include with the synch, scheduling you want, etc. The application must be used to both upload and restore (will allow single file restore, and to a location of your choice) anything, since it does encrypt them during the upload (you can shut this off too). It will link to many "generic" host sites as well, but the FTP option allows uploading to a personal domain easily.
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ChrisKantrowitz
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 26, 13 3:30 PM
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sharke So very recently I had a Sonar related catastrophe...a project file that I'd been working on for weeks got truncated to a measly 51K. Don't know how it happened, more than likely a very unlucky crash while saving. Opening it presented me with a completely empty project. 95% of the project is MIDI so it wasn't as if I could have just reassembled it from the audio. I immediately opened Gobbler to see what was in my account. There it was, the same truncated file...of course. So yeah, that feeling of complete and utter horror, denial, shock, rage, sadness etc. Until I remembered Gobbler's version history. I opened it up....lo and behold, a version from about a half hour before the truncated one. YAY. Nothing like the feeling of relief you get 30 seconds after you were sure that you'd lost hundreds of hours of work forever. I used to back up to disk regularly before Gobbler, but to be honest sometimes I forgot...it's just so great to know that Gobbler has my back covered automatically. If you're not using it yet then get it working without delay!
WOW!!!! what a cool story! Thank you for sharing! Chris
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Re: The life saving powers of GOBBLER
November 27, 13 0:17 PM
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CONGRATS! It's nice to be on the correct side of things like that.
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