Newbie, Best Practices Question
Hello,
New to Reason and was curious about the best practices for backing up songs you do with Reason. I am on the OSX platform and know could Time Machine the whole drive, but I was curious about specific backup areas as well as best practices for file/sound/song storage.
Thank you in advance . .lots to learn.
phil
New to Reason and was curious about the best practices for backing up songs you do with Reason. I am on the OSX platform and know could Time Machine the whole drive, but I was curious about specific backup areas as well as best practices for file/sound/song storage.
Thank you in advance . .lots to learn.
phil
I usually use Time Machine for backup. Never went wrong for me. As far as organization, I save all patches in a folder organized bu the fx/instrument and all songs saved in a session folder since I might use other DAW's or link to external sources (like video and MIDI)
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Time Machine here too. It's saved my butt several times and is super easy to restore things if you have a HD crash.
My way (or the highway)
Songs are named by starting date YYYY.MM.DD
At the end of a work session on that song, I name sequentially and back up to a folder in the Music Projects section of my comp. YYYY.MM.DD.2 I don’t back up during the session because Reason is so darn stable.
Backing up your computer is a whole nother thread.
YMMV
Songs are named by starting date YYYY.MM.DD
At the end of a work session on that song, I name sequentially and back up to a folder in the Music Projects section of my comp. YYYY.MM.DD.2 I don’t back up during the session because Reason is so darn stable.
Backing up your computer is a whole nother thread.
YMMV
Who’s using the royal plural now baby? 🧂
It’s always best to not trust any single medium. I don’t trust the cloud any more than local drives, even though the cloud is probably the safer of the two.
I was taught that data doesn’t truly exist until it’s in three places. And when possible, at least two of those should be based on different technology.
Just by coincidence I’m copying everything to a second drive today! Important files will be on the primary drive, the secondary drive, Time Machine, and the cloud. ALL files are on the three local drives.
I’ve only lost things once, and that was enough. Almost lost a bunch of files a second time, but after going to three different recovery experts was able to get all files back. The second time was at a studio where I was not in charge of the backups, and there was a minor slip up and things didn’t get backed up - of course, that was the day the main drive failed!
Yea, it’s a pain to backup and archive your files, but it only takes one or two failures to convince you if you’re not already convinced (unless you’re a masochist).
Backup early, and often!
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I was taught that data doesn’t truly exist until it’s in three places. And when possible, at least two of those should be based on different technology.
Just by coincidence I’m copying everything to a second drive today! Important files will be on the primary drive, the secondary drive, Time Machine, and the cloud. ALL files are on the three local drives.
I’ve only lost things once, and that was enough. Almost lost a bunch of files a second time, but after going to three different recovery experts was able to get all files back. The second time was at a studio where I was not in charge of the backups, and there was a minor slip up and things didn’t get backed up - of course, that was the day the main drive failed!
Yea, it’s a pain to backup and archive your files, but it only takes one or two failures to convince you if you’re not already convinced (unless you’re a masochist).
Backup early, and often!
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If my hard drive fails, that is natures way of telling me to start over.
I don't believe in backups.
I don't believe in backups.
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The three rules to backup
1. Backup
2. Backup
3. Backup
4. test the bloody backup..
Now I said three rules but gave you four, that's because most people ignore that all important four rule...
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1. Backup
2. Backup
3. Backup
4. test the bloody backup..
Now I said three rules but gave you four, that's because most people ignore that all important four rule...
PoohBear
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My Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqCNsA ... p4cQF4j-8A
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I also google drive it. As soon as I save a project it auto-uploads.
I think he did, albeit a pea-sized one.
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