Do You Keep Software Install Files After Installing?

Discussion in 'Software' started by Vincent Price, Nov 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM.

  1. Audioguydaz

    Audioguydaz Producer

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    This sounds amazing. I need to look up debrid.
     
  2. clone

    clone Audiosexual

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    For Omnisphere 2? Yeah, I thought this was crazy but it was like 10$ so not completely unreasonable I guess.

    People talk about using debrid service on here all the time. But many of them do not notice their debrid service can also function as a seedbox, which can be dropped onto another service. Some services let you, and some don't.
     
  3. Dan Fuerth

    Dan Fuerth Producer

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    Freefilesync : To mirror drives
    Virtual Volumes Viewer : To scan and index the Drives so you can browse it offline ( search etc)

    Use CMR ( Do not use SMR )HDD duplicates for each backup ( same contents on each drive using Freefilesync to make sure mirrors are 1:1)
    Then index one set of the mirrors ( Main one for example ) with Virtual Volumes Viewer

    Now you have mirrors of each backup on hard drives and drives are indexed to browse them while they are offline.

    I power up the backups+mirrors every couple of weeks to keep them refreshed or to add data to the main drive then mirror that drive to the second backup to the mirror drive using Freefilesync.

    For the main OS and installed applications :

    Macrium Reflect Free edition : To backup the OS+Apps installed SSD to 2.5" HDD (on usb enclosures)


    This gives me all I need for Data, downloads, OS backups and be back running quickly in case a drive fails.

    OS drives are backed up every Friday's.

    Several machines and laptops have to be done but this way it gives me a piece of mind so I can search virtually all the contents on Data backups all the way back to 1998 lol.
     
  4. Audioguydaz

    Audioguydaz Producer

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    I'm really lost here. I'm not sure if it's a language thing or I'm just stupid :) Please elaborate.. teach me. For example - you say CMR .. so I google that. Nothing useful...
     
  5. David Brock

    David Brock Rock Star

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    I back up all Kontakt libraries, other VSTs and install files (cracks and keygens) . You never know when they might get taken down by DMCA
     
  6. ballinthejack

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    HDDs. Period. Images of drives and all install packages with keygens and blockers. For the past 5 years. Lots. No prob. Usually.
     
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