Safe way to Test CDRW .BUN file

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I have just put some bundle files on to CD as Data for temporary backup.

Is there a safe way to test if they're alright.? The Nero Express program showed that all the K's were there and it did its "verification" thing all fine.

My idea was to copy and paste a Test copy of one of these CD .BUN's back in to my hard drive and try to play it on Cakewalk and see if it sounded right.

Is it as simple as copy and paste, since its Data and a .BUN?

Then hey- can I delete the .BUN from my hard drive and just do daily work with .WRK files? And backup whenever I've made significant changes?

I am planning on getting a 2nd hard drive soon (not soon enough) for all audio data, but for now this is the deal.

So, is the simple copy& paste idea alright?

thanks alot
 
I think you can just open it from the cd drive, and a temporary copy of the data will be placed in your active data folder/drive spot just as if you opened it from your hard drive.
Then test run it.
If you then saved it (again) as a project, that data would stay on your drive. Otherwise, when you close the bun, the data goes away, as it normaly would.
Pretty sure.
Yah, that's it I think.

Wayne
:rolleyes:
 
Actually you can open it directly from the CD if you wish. File > Open and point to your CD drive.

However, you can also copy to your hard drive if you wish, if that makes you happy. ;)
 
Oh I see

The reason I thought I had to copy it back to my hard drive was because I didn't know if my external CDRW/USB thing was fast enough....
but if it opens into Cakewalk and makes its own temp copy then thats good news and speed is not an issue

Thanks
 
Yeah, it copies the audio to a temp file on your hard drive. If you don't resave the project, it deletes the temp file when you close the project.
 
Depending on the speed of your CD Rom and your CPU/RAM, this could take some time if loaded directly. But worth trying.
 
Paul881 said:
Depending on the speed of your CD Rom and your CPU/RAM, this could take some time if loaded directly. But worth trying.
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But it would still take the same amount of time to copy it to the hard drive first. So no real difference. :)


just do daily work with .WRK files? And backup whenever I've made significant changes?
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This is pretty much how I generally work. I use .wrk (.cwp) files to do most of my actual work. Then I generally backup to a .bun (.cwb) on my hard drive after any "major" changes. And finally do periodic backups of the .bun (.cwb) to a CD-RW for redundancy (the copy on my hd is my primary backup).

I really never actually load a project from a bundle file, except occasionally to test that the bundle is a good working copy.
 
Thanks, one more thing

Dachay2tnr-

Is this 1st backup on your hard drive on a 2nd drive? Is it the one you use for Audio only too? (do you do that whole deal?)

I'm wondering if an external drive is fast enough to use for Audio only - I mean is it the connection or the distance from the computer that makes any difference? I'm shopping for external drives for Audio and .BUNs only and I see both Firewire and USB 2.0 out there. Any opinion would be appreciated.

thanks
 
I use two drives. Drive 1 is partitioned into two logical drives. Logical Drive C: has the OS, Sonar, Wavelab, all my plugins and the Sonar Picture cache. Logical Drive D: has my backup bundle files, and my project files (.wrk). Drive 2 (Logical Drive E:) has all my audio (wave) files.

If Drive 2 crashes, I'm OK since I still have my bundle files on Drive 1. If Drive 1 crashes, it's a little more problematic. I could try and recreate the projects using the wave files on Drive 2, but more likely I would chose to use the bundle files I have on CD. (BTW, occasionally I will get a file that doesn't fit on a CD. In those cases I usually make it fit, by combining tracks, or deleting archived tracks that aren't being use in the mix.)

Don't know if an external drive is fast enough to use for audio. My guess is that USB wouldn't cut it, but firewire might. One of the other forum contributors, ChuckU, just got an external firewire drive, and I think he has used it successfully to record audio. Maybe he'll stop by and confirm.
 
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If Drive 2 crashes, I'm OK since I still have my bundle files on Drive 1. If Drive 1 crashes, it's a little more problematic. I could try and recreate the projects using the wave files on Drive 2, but more likely I would chose to use the bundle files I have on CD. (BTW, occasionally I will get a file that doesn't fit on a CD. In those cases I usually make it fit, by combining tracks, or deleting archived tracks that aren't being use in the mix.)
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Every once in a while I'll copy the 'C' Projects folder onto the B/U drive just for another recovery option. (Although the b/u cwp's arn't kept as current as the buns.)

In the case of buns being over 700 meg, you can also copy the cwp and all the data that fits onto the first cdr, the remainig data on the second. Or third.
Or fourth...
I've hit about 1.6 gig so far.:rolleyes:
Wayne
 
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