Are you backed up?

[customclimates]

Do you back up your recording tracks & files? Thinking on picking up a 1.5 TB external? I am getting back into recording after a long break and want to know what if anything are you using to back things up? I have only played for the past five or so years and not recorded like I did in the past. I would use one CDR per song and just save it but there are so many options out there today.

 

[Bristol Posse]

I back up on to Jungle Disk (www.jungledisk.com) Daily before shutting down.

It's offsite cloud server based storage and you pay by the GB like $0.15 per month or something.
I like it cos if anything terrible happened and I lost everything I still have all my music projects, pics, documents, etc elsewhere that can be recovered from anywhere on any computer.

I also do a weekly onsite back up to an external drive and a monthly disk image in case of main hard drive failure so I can recover the system in 20 minutes to a fairly recent state instead of days of re installing everything and re downloading, finding licenses etc etc etc

 

[customclimates]

Interesting ...

 

[kcearl]

I lost a harddrive about a month ago...mostly old projects and Im fairly new so wasnt a huge deal...havent found out what happened or whether I can recover anything yet

Im duplicating stuff now

 

[altitude909]

external USB drive and Acronis true image. I dont even think about backups any more, everything is scheduled to run over night..

 

[Vhyle]

I always back up my recordings. About twice a month. I use a WD Passport 120gb currently, but I want to get a much bigger one. 120gb isn't much.

But yes, I always keep my stuff backed up. I've had instances before where I get a huge crash and lose most of my work. Not again!

 

[miroslav]

I backup after every session to both internal backup drives and external local drives.

Then I also back up to another external USB drive that pretty much goes with me everywhere. It has all my "active project" files on there. That's my CYA drive, in case my studio gets hit by a meteor.

And then I archive to DVD when done with a mix.

 

[dintymoore]

I got an external hard drive case off of eBay for $15.

I got maybe 20 free ATA hard drives from friends, old junk computers that were being thrown away. I swap them in the external case and put the hard drives in zip lock bags.

Any more than a 10GB hard drive is, to me, kinda stupid. You don't want to store project after project on a 250GB hard drive. You want tons of small hard drives, and since a CD is .8 GB, even a 4 GB hard drive is fine.

Storing tons of stuff on a big hard drive is like hiding all your money in one place.

The safest method of backup is flash USB drives, hard drives with spinning disks should be going the way of 8-track tapes pretty soon (ya!!!!!). Hopefully solid state hard drives will get cheap this year.

You can grab hard drives out of pretty much any old junk computer (Dell, HP, Gateway) and they will work in a Mac.

 

[saads]

Where i go (med school) , 'backed up' means constipated. Just a thought....

 

[Dogbreath]

too much cheese.






anyway... I back up my stuff every time I add something to it. This gives me several backups along the way. So even if my latest bu went to hell, I could just go back one and pick it up from there.

BUT....I mainly just do my stuff so that could make a difference.

 

[saads]

Cheese and beer.....mmmmm.....

Tyramine overdose

 

[grimtraveller]

Storing tons of stuff on a big hard drive is like hiding all your money in one place.

I record on an AKAI DPS12i and I back up each project on a CD then delete it from the hard drive unless I'm going to add to it immediately. It's an overhang from my analogue 8 track days.

 

[DukeDauphin]

Is there a back up program for os X Tiger that backs up nightly to an external drive? I cant find one immediatley although will keep trying. Anyone use a reliable one?

EDIT:

SuperDuper seems to look pretty good......

 

[dgatwood]

Is there a back up program for os X Tiger that backs up nightly to an external drive? I cant find one immediatley although will keep trying. Anyone use a reliable one?

EDIT:

SuperDuper seems to look pretty good......

Upgrade to Leopard or later and use Time Machine. It makes that a lot easier.

 

[Dr. Varney]

There is a saying, which goes something like this:

"If it ain't in at least two places, it don't exist".

At least, that's how you should treat valuable data. As if it doesn't exist, if it isn't backed up...

Ideally, it should really be in three places. CDRs, in my experience, are not as reliable as you'd like to think, so having it on two hard drives, as well as CDR is better - or even make two copies of your CDRs! When I burn, I always burn slow and check for errors afterwards. I don't back up nearly as much or as rigourously as I should. I use a WD brand external USB drive, which is 500GB capacity, so there's really no excuse.

Regards

Dr. V