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Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
This should be an integral part of DAW enthusiasts, no?
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 11:50:47
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bapu
This should be an integral part of DAW enthusiasts, no?
"Should" being the key word there.....
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 12:01:50
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As I get larger I have to backup more. It's getting more difficult to turn around, ya?
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 12:39:24
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I use acronis to back up my data drive. it's the juan where my sonar project files are.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 12:40:13
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I do.
Only when there is a change made so it's not often.
Unless there is something special in whatever Cake may
be offering soon I don't expect I'll need to backup for a long time.
That is with my DAW PC...the one for internet I don't really care about...I can back it up
in the trash can and probably be better off for it.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 12:45:15
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Data about once a month, System same or with major software upgrades.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 14:49:33
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TimeMachine backs up my computers every hour or so. Saved my butt at least once or twice in the last 8 months.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 15:16:48
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I back up both my DAW and my general purpose computer once a month on or shortly after the 1st (makes it easier to remember to actually do it by establishing such an obvious date). I use Acronis and make image copies written to external drives via USB 3. If it was USB 2, I doubt I'd be so regular - with USB 2, the backups would take all night to run. With USB 3, even my DAW which has tons of data, with massive amounts of Kontakt (and other) sample content, still only takes a little over an hour.
I keep the external drives in a fire-proof filing cabinet. Probably would be more risk adverse to store these somewhere else than my house, but ... well, I can't be bothered.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 15:55:53
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 16:01:08
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Thanks for the reminder, I'll back up now.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 16:18:53
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☼ Best Answerby bapu 2014/11/05 16:57:50
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 16:59:00
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And don't forget to remind me next week.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 16:59:56
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Because if I lose any data, I will hold you responsible.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 17:00:26
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2014/11/05 16:57:59
therefore YOU will have to re-record my songs.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 17:26:40
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2014/11/05 19:53:13
Zonno
therefore YOU will have to re-record my songs.
Zonno
therefore YOU will have to re-record my songs.
OK, I'll do it if I have to, but you will NOT like the results.
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 18:52:45
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I presently have 3 external 4TB hard drives. I back up to each of them on a rotation once a week. So one has the back up from 3 weeks ago etc.
I use Acronis. It takes about three clicks and the back up starts and shuts down the machine after it's done.
I back up everything. The system, all the internal drives in entirety (that means two). It's 3 clicks so no extra effort to do the whole thing.
I've recovered my environment from these backups about a dozen times over the years. It take a couple clicks to kick off a restore.
Ever had a situation where some pop up window inexplicably starts popping up? And you can't find where it's coming from? You can spend weeks or hours trying to find it or squash it. Or maybe something else has gone bad, or you've lost a good version of a song you're working on. About a dozen times I've restored using Acronis (a couple clicks to kick it off) and each time it's been such a relief.
P.S. I keep one back up hard drive off premise in case of the unexpected....
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Re: Scurvay: Who does backups and how often?
2014/11/05 22:34:57
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I use a device I purchased from Costco called: Clickfree
It's a USB attached hard drive with automation software.
I've never had to use it to recover from a crash, but it really was useful
when I migrated all my data to my new desktop.
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