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christian_roth
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Online Back-up recommendations

Post by christian_roth » Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:05 am

Up until they lost all my data and their app stopped working, I was a happy Gobbler user. I am searching for a replacement that integrates nicely into my workflow. I loved how Gobbler would get triggered from a save as opposed to me having to copy files over to some cloud managed directory, a la Google Drive.

If this has already come up, can you kindly point me to that thread? Thx.

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Post by Nick Sevilla » Thu Sep 08, 2016 8:33 am

I recommend NOT USING cloud backups, especially, as you can see from your experience, as the SOLE backup for anything you own.

I recommend this:

RETROSPECT.

And this is how I use it:

I have, in my main DAW rig, two audio hard drives.

After every session, I back them up to TWO places: A third backup drive 4TB, so I can have almost a years worth of work there, plus ANOTHER drive which is only for Retrospect, which backs up incrementally, and automatically, as soon as I plug in the USB drive. Usually this is at the end of the day. For the backup drive, I just drag the entire project folder, the Retrospect does it all automatically.

Additionally, I use a THIRD backup, which now is BluRay data discs, and used to be DVD or hard drives in the past, per project, or if there are many smaller projects, as much as needed, 25GB at a time. This I do at the end of a project, once it has been delivered. These BluRay discs are stored in a bank vault far away from my studio, for added security.

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Post by Snarl 12/8 » Thu Sep 08, 2016 8:11 pm

You can have convenience or security, not both.
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Thx

Post by christian_roth » Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:33 pm

I'll check out Retrospect. Thanks.

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