Krom8 » backup http://www.krom8.com Music and random thoughts Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:50:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Backups are a Songwriters Best Friend http://www.krom8.com/2010/01/backups-are-a-songwriters-best-friend http://www.krom8.com/2010/01/backups-are-a-songwriters-best-friend#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:06:21 +0000 Billy http://www.krom8.com/?p=503 As a songwriter working in a digital world I’ve been taught that ctrl+s is my best friend. Constantly hitting save in your DAW could save alot of frustration in the event that the program crashes. I’m sure most of you already live by this rule as well as most everybody else that requires up-to-date project files and who use the computer as a tool to compose their work such as writers, graphic artists, etc… Since hard drives have a tendency to fail at the worst possible moment it’s a good idea to create backups of your work. What I’d like to suggest is that you create at least two backups of your work on a regular basis. There are three mediums that I personally prefer to backup up my work to. The first one is CD/DVD, depending on the amount of data I need to backup. The good thing about this type of medium is that it’s cheap and programs such as Samplitude support this type of backup as a built-in feature. The second medium I use for backups are thumb drives. These small flash drives are fairly dependable and price per GB are constantly dropping. They also have the benefit of being extremely portable which means large backups can be kept in your pocket wherever you go. The next type of backup can be useful depending on who you are. Online storage is dependable and flexible but cost will vary greatly depending on where you get your online storage from. Storing your data online can be useful but it can also backfire if you are someone that alot of people are interested in. The reason I say this is because if you don’t choose a secure method of storing and sending your work online then it can be leaked, stolen or tampered with. If you are someone like me that doesn’t have a huge following then you should be ok. No matter what forms of backup you use you should try your best to keep them secure. If you keep more than one form of backup then you should be able to rest assured that if your hard drive crashes and your backup is corrupted then you will have a “fail-safe” backup.

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