Reaper swapping out hardrives using external/usb hardrives & online backup sites

[mjbphotos]

If you want to 'back up' your files/productions/completed tracks, you need to drag and drop them to the back-up drive (copying them). There is back-up software that will do this automatically for you (when you buy an external USB drive, they usually package this software with it) - you tell it when/where to do it.

[CoolCat]

Thanks, I'll check that out.
going to the store to get a new flash stick.....

[CoolCat]

I surfed around a little bit on the hardrive.

Theres two folders in the document file and numerous Reaper saved to the Music File with word data added.

Which ones do you back up? All of them?
Do you compress first?

[DaleVO]

CC,

Not knowing what files you are seeing in the directories (My Documents/Reaper Media and My Documents/"My Music"<< I assume), Dale's tendency is to drag-n-drop, backup ALL files that are not typical Reaper installation configs. I do not compress.
Dale

[gecko zzed]

There are a couple of things you can do to make your recording and backing up life easier.

If you use Reaper's default filing path ( . . . Reaper Media) or a folder somewhere else that you specify you will end up up with a whole bunch of undifferentiated files. It's relatively easy just to back this folder up, but what you get is a backed up mess that may prove troublesome later on.

Consider creating a separate folder for all your music. Within this folder, create a new folder for each project that you start. You can create this before you start recording or after. If you create it after, then you can go to file/project/save as, and tick the box that says 'copy media into folder' (or something like that).

This makes your recorded fils easier to manage later. For example, if you've recorded a whole mess of rubbish that you want to get rid of, you can just deleted selected folders, instead of trying to ferret out the relevant files.

[CoolCat]

CC,

Not knowing what files you are seeing in the directories (My Documents/Reaper Media and My Documents/"My Music"<< I assume), Dale's tendency is to drag-n-drop, backup ALL files that are not typical Reaper installation configs. I do not compress.
Dale

thanks... I was reading the manual a few times now and still have a some confusion but made some headway.

there is the default settings.

the reaper media folder which is the auto-default project save location, and also my music folder which has a lot of songs/rendered from Reaper.

The confusion is there are a bunch of copys that end in "data". not sure what this is?

gecko, I realize the organizational issue is needed. I dont record large amounts of time so this will be done fairly easily. I like that idea of having it all in a project/song folder.

thanks for the inputs and tips.. I noticed 16gig Jump Drives are only $20 now, and good old fashioned CD-R would probably work for back up too.

[CoolCat]

There are a couple of things you can do to make your recording and backing up life easier.

If you use Reaper's default filing path ( . . . Reaper Media) or a folder somewhere else that you specify you will end up up with a whole bunch of undifferentiated files. It's relatively easy just to back this folder up, but what you get is a backed up mess that may prove troublesome later on.

Consider creating a separate folder for all your music. Within this folder, create a new folder for each project that you start. You can create this before you start recording or after. If you create it after, then you can go to file/project/save as, and tick the box that says 'copy media into folder' (or something like that).

This makes your recorded fils easier to manage later. For example, if you've recorded a whole mess of rubbish that you want to get rid of, you can just deleted selected folders, instead of trying to ferret out the relevant files.

speaking of cleaning up....the manual mentioned "Clean Current Project Directory". When I went to do this it gave a warning some of this might be used in other Projects so I didnt do it. What is it refering to? are they just garbage -takes for that project?