Hello all,
I have a dedicated hard drive for just project files with DP. I'm just wondering how most of you approach the back up process.
Would using a software RAID setup where a separate dedicated drive consistently mirrors the work drive be a good idea? Would this, however, cause a CPU performance drop?
Or, would good ol' fashioned manual back up to external drive at the end of every work day be a better option?
Appreciate your advice!
Tips on backing up your work?
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AlMacMeister
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Don't have any first hand experience concerning your second question, but as to your first, I use an external FW drive and Superduper!.
I have my Mac wake at 2am, the fw drive auto mounts, Superduper! is scheduled to run at 2:05, it does it's thing (mirrors my recording drive) and then it launches a script which unmounts the FW drive and Superduper! sleeps the computer.
It's not a strategy that works for everyone, since it doesn't keep back versions of stuff. Some people like to be able to go back several weeks/versions and retrieve something. My main concern is drive failure and this solves that for me. Eventually I plan on adding in a second backup stage that backs up the external FW to a second FW drive one once a week or so, so that I can keep a copy offsite as well.
I have my Mac wake at 2am, the fw drive auto mounts, Superduper! is scheduled to run at 2:05, it does it's thing (mirrors my recording drive) and then it launches a script which unmounts the FW drive and Superduper! sleeps the computer.
It's not a strategy that works for everyone, since it doesn't keep back versions of stuff. Some people like to be able to go back several weeks/versions and retrieve something. My main concern is drive failure and this solves that for me. Eventually I plan on adding in a second backup stage that backs up the external FW to a second FW drive one once a week or so, so that I can keep a copy offsite as well.
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gearboy
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I manually back sessions up over three drives and keep one of those drives at work and two at the studio. This covers loss of information due to drive failure and fire/theft.
Jeff
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Multiple copies of backups are important because sometimes one of the copies will be unreadable and if it's the only copy, you are SOL.
Hard drives are quite reliable but all it takes is dropping it to ruin your backup.
I'm like gearboy: I have three backup sets that I rotate weekly and keep one at home in case of some disaster in the studio.
I also keep a DVD-R of all my scores at my mother-in-law's house in case my house and studio burn down (I've already had the flood from a broken toilet).
**Leigh
Hard drives are quite reliable but all it takes is dropping it to ruin your backup.
I'm like gearboy: I have three backup sets that I rotate weekly and keep one at home in case of some disaster in the studio.
I also keep a DVD-R of all my scores at my mother-in-law's house in case my house and studio burn down (I've already had the flood from a broken toilet).
**Leigh