Is there an easy way to do this?

[WildHoney]

I currently use 4 separate drives for organizing my sessions. One work drive off of which I'm actually running the session (record and playback), 2 internal drives and one network drive (network drive is in a different location). So after working on a session, I copy (in the finder) from the work drive to the 3 other drives. I'd like to find a way to do that with one click rather than dragging the folder manually to three separate drives. Save time, clicks and reduce the chances of a mistake. Anybody got a solution?

[jstaczek]

http://decimus.net/Synk/SynkPro.html

[WildHoney]

Originally Posted by jstaczek

http://decimus.net/Synk/SynkPro.html

Looks cool, but seems like this requires you to predetermine which folders you'll be backing up. In my case, that list is constantly changing. The folder I need to backup is whatever is the last one I worked on on my work drive. Am I missing something about this app? And it also seems like it only allows me to back up folders to one location whereas I need to backup to three locations.

[Pythagor]

you probably want to backup your work drive 3 times each time to different drives and with condition to backup only files/folders created today

[Dism]

Originally Posted by WildHoney

Looks cool, but seems like this requires you to predetermine which folders you'll be backing up. In my case, that list is constantly changing. The folder I need to backup is whatever is the last one I worked on on my work drive. Am I missing something about this app? And it also seems like it only allows me to back up folders to one location whereas I need to backup to three locations.

Well it's pretty easy from Pro Tools...

Before you close down your session, just click "Save Copy In..." and select the location you want to save the session.

[WildHoney]

Originally Posted by Dism

Well it's pretty easy from Pro Tools...

Before you close down your session, just click "Save Copy In..." and select the location you want to save the session.

sure, but doesn't that require you repeating the procedure 3 times to go to each of the 3 backup drives? Unless, I'm missing something in what you're saying just changes 3 finder drags to 3 PT "save copy in..."'s

[ronwasserman]

This: http://www.getgobbler.com/ looks promising. Slate Digital is involved I think.

Haven't tried it yet, but it is targeted to audio users.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by WildHoney

sure, but doesn't that require you repeating the procedure 3 times to go to each of the 3 backup drives? Unless, I'm missing something in what you're saying just changes 3 finder drags to 3 PT "save copy in..."'s

Ah so you're wanting to save the same copy to 3 different locations at the same time.

I believe there is a backup tool that will allow you clone small file changes on demand, but the name escapes me at the moment.

[WildHoney]

Originally Posted by ronwasserman

This: http://www.getgobbler.com/ looks promising. Slate Digital is involved I think.

Haven't tried it yet, but it is targeted to audio users.

Looks cool, but I don't really have the need for the cloud aspect. Really, if there's a way to make an apple script or use OSX Automator that would probably be my BEST method. The dream for me would be to right-click on the folder to initiate a script to copy it to the three other drives. Don't even need incremental backups necessarily. Just replace the old one with the new one.

[Bill Denton]

I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but...

I've done IT for some very large US corporations.

While we backed up every night, we only did one backup to one backup device. After all, there are only 12 hours between 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM; figure in international operations and the backup window is even smaller.

True, since 9/11 some companies have gone to virtually continuous backup operations, but since the cost of one minute of downtime for them is probably several orders of magnitude larger than a large studio's entire year's gross it is worth it.

I've heard the "three copies" mantra so many times I could scream; I call [bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep].

Keep one copy on your "session" hard drive and back it up either post-session or nightly to an external hard drive and even a Vegas bookmaker doesn't have a calculator big enough to tell you the odds of your having a data failure.

I'm on my eighth computer since 2000 (as a software developer I pretty much need the latest-and-greatest). I bring them home, I turn them on, and I leave them on. In that time I've lost one very cheap CD drive and an LCD screen in a cheap notebook...period.

Please don't bother me with your horror stories; I've already read most of them here and on other forums. And I imagine just Avid gains more new users in one minute than there are all of you put together. Do whatever you want...it's no skin off my teeth.

But for the rest of you, try not to let a paranoid few override your own common sense...