Always back up, kids

[wub]

If digital data does not exist in at least 3 seperate locations, then it does not exist at all.

[Depone]

Sorry fo hear it

Those of you who are on a mac, time machine has saved my ass on a few occasions. It makes backups every 30 mins or so of all your hds that are connected, internal and external. Once its done the first big backup it intelegently then only backs up newer data thats added or taken away. You can fully restore your mac from these backups as if nothing had happened. Had a hd corruption and was able to wipe it, and restore it from time machine only loosing 20mins of production. Tech eigh

[Manic Harmonic]

Sorry fo hear it

Those of you who are on a mac, time machine has saved my ass on a few occasions. It makes backups every 30 mins or so of all your hds that are connected, internal and external. Once its done the first big backup it intelegently then only backs up newer data thats added or taken away. You can fully restore your mac from these backups as if nothing had happened. Had a hd corruption and was able to wipe it, and restore it from time machine only loosing 20mins of production. Tech eigh

This is why I love time machine. Haven't had to use it yet but it give me piece of mind. Just to confirm, does time machine restore the entire hard drive, meaning a carbon copy?

[Depone]

Sorry fo hear it

Those of you who are on a mac, time machine has saved my ass on a few occasions. It makes backups every 30 mins or so of all your hds that are connected, internal and external. Once its done the first big backup it intelegently then only backs up newer data thats added or taken away. You can fully restore your mac from these backups as if nothing had happened. Had a hd corruption and was able to wipe it, and restore it from time machine only loosing 20mins of production. Tech eigh

This is why I love time machine. Haven't had to use it yet but it give me piece of mind. Just to confirm, does time machine restore the entire hard drive, meaning a carbon copy?

Yes it does, but its not a bootable backup as the nature of how it backs up is dynamic and diferent. What you do is use your install disk that came with your mac, and theres a 'recover from time machine backup' menu at the top. Literally restores like it were a carbon copy.

That and recovering lost and deleted files is a breeze, activate time machine and go back a few weeks in the timeline and type a search and fully restore it back to the folder it was originally in.
Probably one of the best bit of tech apple has put into its operating system, and is overlooked.

Make sure you ger a backup hd thats bigger than all your drives combined and you are set

[Manic Harmonic]

Sorry fo hear it

Those of you who are on a mac, time machine has saved my ass on a few occasions. It makes backups every 30 mins or so of all your hds that are connected, internal and external. Once its done the first big backup it intelegently then only backs up newer data thats added or taken away. You can fully restore your mac from these backups as if nothing had happened. Had a hd corruption and was able to wipe it, and restore it from time machine only loosing 20mins of production. Tech eigh

This is why I love time machine. Haven't had to use it yet but it give me piece of mind. Just to confirm, does time machine restore the entire hard drive, meaning a carbon copy?

Yes it does, but its not a bootable backup as the nature of how it backs up is dynamic and diferent. What you do is use your install disk that came with your mac, and theres a 'recover from time machine backup' menu at the top. Literally restores like it were a carbon copy.

That and recovering lost and deleted files is a breeze, activate time machine and go back a few weeks in the timeline and type a search and fully restore it back to the folder it was originally in.
Probably one of the best bit of tech apple has put into its operating system, and is overlooked.

Make sure you ger a backup hd thats bigger than all your drives combined and you are set

Yeah, I have a 1 terrabite. It gets full surprisingly quick, I'm going to try to back it up on my website right now, I I have yet to do that. Any idea why 400 gigs worth of HD space would only take up say, 100-200 gigs(something like that) on a time machine backup?

[Depone]

Sorry fo hear it

Those of you who are on a mac, time machine has saved my ass on a few occasions. It makes backups every 30 mins or so of all your hds that are connected, internal and external. Once its done the first big backup it intelegently then only backs up newer data thats added or taken away. You can fully restore your mac from these backups as if nothing had happened. Had a hd corruption and was able to wipe it, and restore it from time machine only loosing 20mins of production. Tech eigh

This is why I love time machine. Haven't had to use it yet but it give me piece of mind. Just to confirm, does time machine restore the entire hard drive, meaning a carbon copy?

Yes it does, but its not a bootable backup as the nature of how it backs up is dynamic and diferent. What you do is use your install disk that came with your mac, and theres a 'recover from time machine backup' menu at the top. Literally restores like it were a carbon copy.

That and recovering lost and deleted files is a breeze, activate time machine and go back a few weeks in the timeline and type a search and fully restore it back to the folder it was originally in.
Probably one of the best bit of tech apple has put into its operating system, and is overlooked.

Make sure you ger a backup hd thats bigger than all your drives combined and you are set

Yeah, I have a 1 terrabite. It gets full surprisingly quick, I'm going to try to back it up on my website right now, I I have yet to do that. Any idea why 400 gigs worth of HD space would only take up say, 100-200 gigs(something like that) on a time machine backup?

Thats odd. well it only backs up whats used. so if you have a 400g hd and only 300g is used, it will backup 300 not the whole 400.

You might want to delete your time machine backup, and start again.

[Manic Harmonic]

yeah its a 650 gig. whatever, if it takes up less space on my external im cool with that

[blinx]

TImemachine for me backups made easy. SuperDuper every once in a while when im doing something risky like os updates or software updates.

[wormcode]

I don't trust 1TB+ drives I've used, especially the 2TB ones... too much data in one place.
Look into RAID/redundant setups. General info: http://www.pctechguide.com/how-to-set-up-a-raid-array

Also, I have spammed this link here a few times over the years, but I swear by it: http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEMirror/IndexE.html

Great quick and easy free backup program for PC. Nice custom options, like being able to only update/backup files changed by size, or by date etc. Very fast and solid.

[subsynth]

I have a Project folder outside of the library that I backup to an external every few days. Especially before I go on the road for some gigs. I always "collect all and save" so that my samples I'm actively using are included.

If I lost my computer I'd at least have my sets ready to play on a new device. I also save all my installers for Vsts, etc in a backup folder, and star all the registration emails for easy access.

[JBE]

I thought buying an external hard drive would solve all my problems. Whatever you do, do not rely on just an external hard drive people. Those things seem to crap out faster than the hard drives in your computer.

On a side note, it feels like death when this happens at first, but really it's not entirely a bad thing. There are some bright sides to having to start fresh again. A lot of times people don't realize it but by keeping the old we tend to rely on it way too much. Even though you learn so much along the way, a lot of times it's the older stuff you still have that can drag you down because you tend to always go back to it. With having to start over fresh, you can clear out some of those bad habits and push forward with more of the newer knowledge you have obtained. Now I actually try to delete a lot of my old project files that distract me that I know will probably go nowhere. I also started clearing out sample folders and only really keeping the stuff I know I can put to good use.