Members shniggens Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 How do you guys back up your projects? Is it simply a matter of burning them onto a CD/DVD? Do you compress, or do any other method or archiving? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 Extra hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 Extra hard drive and cd and whatever method especially for important stuff. Some even back up using different brands of media. It is so cheap/inexpensive now compared to awhile ago to save data! I still bum out over data lost 9 years ago because media was "expensive"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shniggens Posted September 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 I didn't even think of an external hard drive. Duh. Time to start shopping. Since it's only going to be for storage, I shouldn't need anything speedy, right? I can go cheap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blackpig Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 I've got a hard drive I pulled out of an old laptop. I put it in a box with usb connections and now it's a spare external drive. I never thought of using it to back up songs on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 19, 2007 Members Share Posted September 19, 2007 Extra hard drive. If it doesn't cost much extra, get a "fast" one because you never know if you're going to end up using it later. I also back up to DVD-R. In other words, important projects are on the working hard drive, are backed up to another hard drive, and are backed up to DVD-R. I don't compress the data at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kurfu Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 Three removable hard drives:1 - sits idle in the caddy in my PC.2 - is in my closet at home3 - locked in my desk at work I'll do a backup to #1, take is to work and trade it for that hard drive, take that one home and put it in the closet, take the one from the closet and stick it in the caddy. Sort of like rotating your tires. And remember - a backup is not a backup if it is stored in the same building as the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbach Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 I use an external HDD but I also double/triple back up certain vital stuff such as personal accounting and taxes to an Iomega zip drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spikemullings Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 I keep all my important stuff like music projects and all my life's savings in a box which I keep under my bed at my address at . . . Hang on, you'll not get me that easily . . . d'ya fink I'm shtoopid or sumpting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeronyne Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 2 sets of extra hard drives, although with the amount of times I've been burned by format changes, I'm considering printing out paper copies of everything in binary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave Martin Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 Extra hard drive. If it doesn't cost much extra, get a "fast" one because you never know if you're going to end up using it later. I also back up to DVD-R. In other words, important projects are on the working hard drive, are backed up to another hard drive, and are backed up to DVD-R.I don't compress the data at all. Same here. Actually, I simply drag the project over to a backup drive at the end of every session - and projects that I work on over a period of time are dragged alternately to two different backup drives (so it's on a total of three drives during the course of the project). When the project is finished, I'll usually back it up to two different sets of dvds for long term storage and then delete them from the drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike McLenison Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I use an extra internal and an external hard drive. Yeah, I save in triplicate. Then there's always the flash drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted September 22, 2007 Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 I didn't even think of an external hard drive. Duh. Time to start shopping. Since it's only going to be for storage, I shouldn't need anything speedy, right? I can go cheap? No need to be external unless you're out of room in the computer. An external drive will transfer slower than an internal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PetersReviews Posted September 22, 2007 Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 I swear by external hard drives after a friend of mine backed his entire CD project to CDRs. He's really type-A so he meticulously labeled everything and organized them into the separate instrument tracks. A stack of CDs and every single one of them went bad because the labels he used (Neato) ate into the top layer of the CDRs and corrupted them. I'm not sure if Neato has gotten better but I know I won't take that chance. If I ever make a CDR or DVD backup, I never write on it no matter what the manufacturer claims. If anything, I'll write on the center part where no data is stored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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