"I too know what it is like to be a dickhead..."

[Qwerty]

A cautionary tale..........

I back up everything religiously. I label it. I mark it with a date.

But now and then I keep some older stuff archived on a secondary hard disk to keep it handy.

And I forget to burn it to CD.

And it has the same name and date stamp as some other similar files that I do have burned to CD.

Months pass.

I run out of disk space.

I burn more backups.

I see this old directory.

I look in my old CD's -- see the same file and date stamps.

I delete the directory.

I have disk space.

I am happy.

Days pass.

My client comes in.

Wants to keep an old take and not re-record a new version.

I have to explain I no longer have it.

I get a red face.

And egg dribbles down my face.

A lesson learnt.....

FWIW.

Q.

[BloodShark]

You could write a song with that!

[moskus]

Just relax. I'll send some nice men in white coats to your place...

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by BloodShark
You could write a song with that!

Oh f*ck, oh f*ck my backups suck!
I do not want to be in this place,
Egg is dribbling down my face....

EGG IS DRIBBLING DOWN MY FACE

Q.

OK - death metal version posted shortly in the clinic.....

[Porter]

And to say you work in IT.... shame!!!!! ... Joke, it happens to the best of us.

I know how you feel... so do you actually run a home recording studio?

Porter

[moskus]

Originally posted by Qwerty
OK - death metal version posted shortly in the clinic.....

I'll wait for the Dance Remix...

Because that has to suck even more...

[EddieRay]

Now that you mention it, I've begun to accumulate a number of cakewalk .wrk files and need to start doing backups to CD. I'm sure I've got more than will fit on a single CD. Should I just start burning files to CDs or can I use .bun files, whatever they are?

[Porter]

Originally posted by EddieRay
Now that you mention it, I've begun to accumulate a number of cakewalk .wrk files and need to start doing backups to CD. I'm sure I've got more than will fit on a single CD. Should I just start burning files to CDs or can I use .bun files, whatever they are?

Assuming you are using Sonar... If you are using per-project folder, just burn the wrk file and the audio files... there have been times when bun files have become corrupt and you have to rename it to .wav then go through and re-align all the audio track again which would be a pain in the but.

Porter

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I know I am weird, but I save my .wav and Sonar files zipped to a my second hard drive. Then I periodically burn them on CD's. I've had to restore a song or two in the past, and I just unzip to the proper directory, and it is all there.

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