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I have all my daw projects stored on one hd and do a weekly backup to another hard drive. Â I don’t have any off site back up though. Â In the even of my machine being stolen of physically destroyed, I would be sol.
What are you all doing to back up your projects?
1) The OS drives on both of my Macs are backed up to 1.5 TB internal SATA drives with Time Machine
2) I have two external 1 TB drives that I backup all of my work files and instrument files to in duplicate. (i.e., the drives mirror each other). I have two other 1 TB drives for current projects. All four drives are in one ICY DOCK enclosure and connected to the main Mac via a PCIe card.
3) I have two portable 1.5 TB drives that I backup everything to, (including instruments), and those get stored in a safety deposit box at the bank.
4) I have midi files going back 27 years on CD, and audio files going back 15 years on CD and hard drives.
5) I keep copies of the serial numbers of all of my sample libraries.
6) Documents get backed-up to multiple flash drives
7) Â I use iLok “zero down time.”
I can’t stress the importance of redundant back-up systems enough.
_Michael
I have triple backups of everything and rotate one of those offsite to a safe deposit box. I also have all of my mixes backed up (in the cloud) to my Amazon S3 account.
Amazon has a service where you can send them a drive if you have a large amount of data that would be too slow for Internet backup. I’m going to send them all of my DAW project files and they will also be transferred to my S3 account. Amazon accounts are very affordable.
I have BackBlaze running in the background all the time. I do a manual back up of my projects about once a month, a system clone about once a quarter.
I burn my sessions on dvds & lock them up in a PO Box I rented.
AxD
Seperate 2tb fw drive for Audio and Sample drive back up. Once a week.
Portable drive for Time Machine.every month or so
One thing some people don’t consider is if your backup drive(s) are physically in the same location as your DAW (e.g. internal or external in the same room), fire, flood, theft, etc can make you lose everything. So it’s important that at least one backup is offsite– either a drive stored elsewhere or web-based.
I’ve opted for one daily external HD backup and one cloud service which runs in the background.
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One thing some people don’t consider is if your backup drive(s) are physically in the same location as your DAW (e.g. internal or external in the same room), fire, flood, theft, etc can make you lose everything. So it’s important that at least one backup is offsite- either a drive stored elsewhere or web-based.
What Cloud service do you use Advice, yes I have my 2nd BU off site.