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Backing up Audio Drive (External) and External HD Question
Hi everybody,
The external HD I'm using for my protools sessions is starting to make some noise. I'm affraid it's geting ready to crash. I wanted to ask if creating a disk image is a reliable way to back it up in case it crashes? Does that backup all my audio files as well? Next question: It's been a while since I bought an enclosure and drive. What's the good ones at a good price o get these days? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Backing up Audio Drive (External) and External HD Questi
I swear by Super Duper for backing up all my
work. It is brilliant for Cloning a startup drive as well as while you are working on a project (where it has an archive feature that will keep every file that you have created in a session as well as a clone of the session folder on 2 separate drives. For you it will create a clone of your dubious drive, but do it quickly! Remember, if your data is not in 3 places it is not backed up. I have been successfully using a RAID drive with 2 500GB drives stripes as a single 500GB redundant array. If one drive dies then the drive will re copy the data from the good drive to a new drive when you replace it. You can even record this way. The case I use is a Taurus I am in Australia so these are easy to get from a number of suppliers, I make sure they are populated with reliable drives (I like seagate drives myself). This seems like a very practical and reasonably safe way to go. But drives are not really what you can consider backups. I had a client that brought some data back to us to work on last week, on a drive he bought from ebay! Needless to say I spent several hours recovering the data, from what was obviously an old laptop internal drive slapped in a nice shiny new case. You have to ask yourself what you would pay if you lost your data. Drives are inexpensive now there is no excuse for this sort of thing to happen. hope this helps Simon L. |
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Re: Backing up Audio Drive (External) and External HD Questi
Thanks for the info and advice.
I must appologize, this thread should have been posted in the "Pro Tools LE Mac" area. Sorry!
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