How to backup your work.

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  1. MrLyannMusic

    MrLyannMusic Audiosexual

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    First of all sorry if this is in the wrong place,

    secondly i know this topic is kind of a cliché, but still it's an important one.

    So my question is what's the best way to mirror/Backup your project Folder or Disk for that matter,

    i know many people have already established a system and it is working for them flawlessly i hope, for those guys, i need your help.

    Mainly what i wanna do is BACKUP only my project Folders, "where serious projects is located" which is usually my Documents folder on windows, i wanna make a live copy of that folder and whenever something is added, modified, deleted, same happen on the mirrored folder,

    What softwares do you suggest and what's the best way to maintain it.

    PS: i'm planning on buying a totally separate external hard drive for this.
     
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  3. Olymoon

    Olymoon MODERATOR Staff Member

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    What's your system?
     
  4. MrLyannMusic

    MrLyannMusic Audiosexual

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  5. clipper

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    Maybe this is obvious, or stupid, but what about compressing your projects and uploading them to your Google Drive?
     
  6. clipper

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    Of course, you should collect all files related to your project, but DAWs usually have that option to save them.

    If you upload them to Drive, you can even have a synchronization option on Drive, synchronizing the folder where your projects are, to Drive.
     
  7. MrLyannMusic

    MrLyannMusic Audiosexual

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    Good idea until you're faced with slow internet connection with 1Mb upload and 15GB of maximum storage.

    compressing on the other hand is not appreciated, as a project is always open for tweaking, the extra work you're gonna put with that option isn't efficient especially when you have a large number of projects.
     
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    No Avenger Moderator Staff Member

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    RAID 1 is made for backing up a disk live.
     
  9. MrLyannMusic

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    That's a hardware accelerated option, good but limiting, i want a software option with the ability to chose any external/internal if possible over the network drive.

    Thanks for the comment though.
     
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    early and often and everywhere is my policy... but i am a bit sloppy, so i at least err on the side of having it in at LEAST 3 places. ...
     
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  12. dbmuzik

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    Your projects/record path should be on a separate storage drive. That's the first thing you should arrange. Not only is it proper for the read/write performance you want with audio recording.. it's also less of a worry when your precious project files and recordings are on a drive that doesn't work nearly as hard or often as your Windows operating disk.

    Then, start making incremental backups every few weeks or whenever you feel the need. I use a hot swap drive rack installed to one of the bays in front of the desktop. It has a power button so I can create the backup to the inserted disk then power it right back off.
     
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  13. Olymoon

    Olymoon MODERATOR Staff Member

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    Ok, so the right place to post this is in the PC section.
    I'm moving it there.
     
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    I was using Aomei backup in the past, but it seems that it's no longer free anymore when you want to get the most out of it. I really liked it when I was using it.

    EaseUS backup seems great according to many people. It's free and it seems to have all the most important features. They say it's the best free version, but of course this is for everyone different. Although, I tried it, but I didn't like it.

    I am using Paragon backup right now. Also free. I am very happy with it until so far. I find it easy to use and you can make backups on schedule aswell. I have backups running at least a day every week. For me it's having the most important features aswell.

    I also recommend to not only backup your projects, but also your wav files of the sounds of your projects, your other samples, libraries, etc. I have two projects with plugins that are behaving badly which means the sounds in it are suddenly really weird. Glad I have the wav files.

    I am not sure if there are free programs out there that makes immediately backups after you make changes to a specific folder. For instance when you save a new project. EaseUS backup is having that for instance, but you need premium version.
     
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    Acronis True Image is the best out there, if you buy a western digital ext hdd you can dl the free acronis, only works with a connected wd hdd tho, fail safe, i keep 3 backups on different drives to be safe, its easy to use as well.
     
  17. Lily48

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    RealTimeSync via FreeFileSync. A bit manual though.
     
  18. ontschoeit

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    Duplicati is my option for encrypted upload to cloud (for smaller sets < 10 GB) - Duplicacy is for the bigger stuff. Notice the tiny difference in their name.
    Both do cron jobs. The first one is heavily database reliant, i.e. upon restore it may take hours and days to rebuild a database and restore is painful, hence only for smaller backups.
     
  19. Ad Heesive

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    For what you seem to be describing, a software solution that provides similar realtime functionality as RAID,
    See DrivePool from https://stablebit.com/
     
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    I run three internal hard drives on my Win 10 PC, Disk (C) for system files, Disk(D) for Projects, Disk (E) for samples.
    I make a (C) drive system image from Win 10 and save it to my internal (D) drive, then I copy all files from both the (D) and the (E) drives to an external portable 2tb Seagate drive, or depending on the size of your PC hard drives a larger external drive would be required.
     
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    I'm surprised nobody mentioned GoodSync.
    I don't know the limitations of the trial version, but if you want backup in sync mode it's great.
     
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