[lilkat]

Certainly many or most of the members here have vast collections of music. How often to you make backups of your music files? I use a removable hard drive for regular backups and to update my other computers with new music.

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by lilkat

Certainly many or most of the members here have vast collections of music. How often to you make backups of your music files? I use a removable hard drive for regular backups and to update my other computers with new music.

I don't and I know I should...I know I might find my self crying one day

Thanks for bringing up this great reminder and suggestion... and external
hard drives are way down in price now..

Thanks again for the great post,

Nightfly

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

I don't and I know I should...I know I might find my self crying one day

Thanks for bringing up this great reminder and suggestion... and external
hard drives are way down in price now..

Thanks again for the great post,

Nightfly

Do it tonight

[TxTurbo]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

I don't and I know I should...I know I might find my self crying one day

Thanks for bringing up this great reminder and suggestion... and external
hard drives are way down in price now..

Thanks again for the great post,

Nightfly

Have you done it yet?

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by TxTurbo

Have you done it yet?

I do it every night, my friend. Mornings too...

[Blaze]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

I do it every night, my friend. Mornings too...

Well now...that's...informative.

[coolapic]

Originally Posted by lilkat

Certainly many or most of the members here have vast collections of music. How often to you make backups of your music files? I use a removable hard drive for regular backups and to update my other computers with new music.

Hi lilkat,

Well, my backup policy is the following :

I backup everything valuable in at least 3 places

a/ one copy, "to be used / worked on, on your computer or external drive.

b/ one perfect backup copy (automatically updated twice a day, incremental)

c/ a third perfect backup copy stored in another safe location, miles away, on a NAS RAID 5 that's automatically updated once every 24 or 48 hours.

My music and other important files are also burned on DVD's once in a while.

This is why my advice is that when you buy a drive (internal or external) you NEVER buy "only" the capacity you need ! ALWAYS buy double or even triple the drive space you need on distinct separate drives !

Pex : If you may need another 250 gigs, budget and buy AT LEAST two 250 gig drives.

/Paranoia

The HD prices are now low enough to allow this to everyone. It's how everything should be backed-up.

Regards

coolapic

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by TxTurbo

Have you done it yet?

You Guys are putting to much pressure on me....

I'll do it soon promise...


Nightfly

[Dave C]

Originally Posted by lilkat

Certainly many or most of the members here have vast collections of music. How often to you make backups of your music files? I use a removable hard drive for regular backups and to update my other computers with new music.

I've got a couple of 250GB external hard drives which I swap between work and home. What with photos & music, it can take a while to do so I only bother once a week,
Cheers,
Dave C

[bokr]

i have all the files on my macbook and a external harddisk only for my music files - so if one fails there´s one left. and because i had a lot of bad experiences in loosing files in the past (i´m in grafic and advertisment and if i loose my files there´s no more work and money) i copy all music files also on a server once a week. and i can tell erverbody in this forum not to say: o.k. i should also do this - so i´ll make it tomorrow. SAVE YOUR FILES NOW!