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Original Message 1/30 20-Jul-04 @ 03:16 PM Edit: 20-Jul-04 | 03:16 PM - Are you BACKED UP?

dARKSTATe

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Based on something I read in SoS, I got to thinkin (this has probably been covered off here recently but what the hey?! eh?!)

(Oh, and this could also probably be in the PC Music forum but it applies to Mac and linux heads, as well so here we are..)

How often to people back-up? I mean honestly? And what kinda processes do you go through? Just bung it all on DVDR? Use an app which helps devise backup schemes? Manually pick through and compress stuff before copying to CDR? Use portable harddrives? Backup to servers on a personal LAN?

Also, this Monkey's Audio file compressor looks damn nice... according to these specs anyway.. but do people still bother to crush stuff?!

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/comparison.html

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Message 2/30 20-Jul-04 @ 03:34 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

Maarten

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I happily own a not-large enough HD, I was gonna upgrade to something bigger but your question may well just have me not do that. Because yes, I only backup to CD-r to actually free up space on my HD. I know I should be doing this on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. But I'm afraid that if I get me a 120GB hard disc it'll take at least another year till my next backup and that would not be so smart.
I put everything uncompressed on the cd's.

cheers,
Maarten

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Message 3/30 20-Jul-04 @ 04:32 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

craig

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I back things up to DVD whenever I've made significant progress on something. When I'm finished working with a project, and I've done significant work on it, then I save it to a Cakewalk bundle and copy it to DVD.

When I've finished an album, I burn all the work files to two seperate DVDs. I really should take one set to work or to my parents' place in case my house burns down

-Craig

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Message 4/30 20-Jul-04 @ 05:42 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

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i back up to network & dvd

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Message 5/30 20-Jul-04 @ 08:49 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

Mindspawn

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Network and DVD here, as well.... about every other month for system stuffs, and up to daily backups for commercial work, though usually, I do more like Craig, only when I've got to a point of significant progress.

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Message 6/30 20-Jul-04 @ 10:12 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

lothario

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i use 3,5 inch disks, where all my work is; midi, sounds - everything, simple as that

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Message 7/30 21-Jul-04 @ 10:21 AM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

dARKSTATe

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Interesting, so far no one has professed to compressing their data beforehand?

Gonna check out this monkey's audio anyhoo.. see if it lives upto the hype

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Message 8/30 21-Jul-04 @ 01:16 PM Edit: 21-Jul-04 | 01:18 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

beds

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i use winrar to compress and save to dvd if it's massive, otherwise i just drop the project straight onto dvd. i also back up to another drive on the network.

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Message 9/30 21-Jul-04 @ 04:24 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

psylichon

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one scratched, unreadable WAV file I can deal with. One scratched, unreadable RAR or ZIP? Now that will waste an entire project, innit?

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Message 10/30 21-Jul-04 @ 04:45 PM - RE: Are you BACKED UP?

xoxos

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1 cd-r 1, 2x a year, just good songs.

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