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friendly reminder: back-up your work

i recently lost my harddrive, but was able to salvage a lot of important projects. however, i could just as easily lost those files too. a few simple cd-r backup would have saved me.funny enough, the day before the big crash i sent in a 4 track ep to my label, i probably would have been crying if that happened before i did that, lulz.

so, a friendly reminder to back-up your work, especially if you're using a single hard-drive (even raids fail...), could save some precious patches, project files and heartaches. maybe someone else can recommend some net storages or some experiences.

That's good advice.

I have a backup drive connected directly to my Mac, that I back up my projects to. I keep the drive turned off 99% of the time, only turning it on when i perform a backup. Then I also backup to a server with a 4 disk RAID array on top of the other backup.

Its always a good idea to backup to multiple places if you can. I'm fixing to pick up a DLT tape drive as a 3rd layer of backup, just to be extra safe.

I have a 1TB dedicated backup drive set to automatically backup every week and I manually back up as necessary (e.g., when make substantial progress on, or completing, a project file). This is fine for protecting against HD failure, but won't protect my files against fire, theft, etc., so I am also interested in net-based storage options.

For every drive, I have a back up drive. So 4 X 1.5gb X 2 and I do a weekly backup.
Drives will fail so assume you can afford to lose anything that isn't backed up.

Yeah when I had to reformat my computer I could have lost literally every trace of anything I've done involving music in the last 3 years, not counting the songs I've uploaded. I got extremely lucky but now I keep everything backed up. It's definitely better to have that security beforehand instead of assuming you don't need to.

Yeah, in 2005 i lost every arrangement i had done since 1997 and that hurt, but it caused the whole sinnica hax guise, to look forward torwards new challenges instead

..but it still hurt for a few days.

So I do backup on a regular basis to my webhost now!

i find DVD backups to be more "safe" somehow. i do it often, except for all my mp3s which are on a external only now, maybe i should back up that one. but actually i dont have anything worth saving except some party pictures from back in the day.

dvds have a life expectancy of 5 years. Not very safe. Tape is probably safest, then solid state hardrives, then probably real hardrives. You just have to have a certain level of redundancy and you will be fine. No solution is 100%. Its like having sex with a thai hooker. Protection minimizes the chance of getting the itch but there is always the chance you rub somewhere that isn't covered. I learnt this the hard way and was pretty angry but alas it is hard to stay angry at a kid.

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad Its like having sex with a thai hooker. Protection minimizes the chance of getting the itch but there is always the chance you rub somewhere that isn't covered. I learnt this the hard way and was pretty angry but alas it is hard to stay angry at a kid.

*shyly raises his hand* Not a hooker though, ha ha ha!!

ya see I was joking you gangrenous perv

Yeah but I was not

so you fuck kids ?

p.s. I am not a perv

KIDS?! I barely dare to date 28 year old girls these days because of their abscence of some brain

just going off what you say.

W-what I said?


p.s. this Thread took a.... odd turn *lol*

this thread is now about hookers, and possibly blow...

We could make it a hybrid-thread.
When you have been with a hooker, back-up your work

also, sell all your shares. doomsday is coming.

Does doomsday sidechain?

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad dvds have a life expectancy of 5 years.

Depends on what kind. Some can last 100 years.

Good call, I need to sort out my back-up situation.

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Originally posted by Beatflux Depends on what kind. Some can last 100 years.

the general ones with chemical dye do not last long. I think you are referring to actual pressed dvds which is another ball game.

I just read that SSD drives are going to be a lot cheaper in a few months - they will cost like 1$ for every GB.

I think this thread whoudl be bumped every 3 months.

A very well known engineer once said to me:

"There are two types of Protools engineers; those who have lost data, and those who are about to"

This was off the back of me losing an entire 6 hour percussion session, with two musicians, just because I had not backed up and when coming in the next morning to resume the session, I accidentally copied the blank starting template folder back on to the target drive and forgot to rename it.

Needless to say I never did it again, and now a backup is second nature.

@Eric - let me know if you need any pointers on Tape backup - I've used most versions of tape including all the DLT's....

@viber - that would be great news...I'm just beginning to see that happen to prices on the likes of newegg etc.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN @Eric - let me know if you need any pointers on Tape backup - I've used most versions of tape including all the DLT's....

Thanks. I got a steal at work. They are going to sell me a DLT Tape drive, 5 tapes and a SCSI card for $35, so I think I'll have my 3rd layer backup solution all sorted out.

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