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29 Dec 2012 10:17 #19437 by mester
Backup event/projects was created by mester
how do you guys do backups of your event and project files?

in my setup, I use my media raid for all files, its Raid 5 and therefore "safe"

in FCP7, I always took the project file and copy to another drive, on a USB stick and on the cloud, but in X it will take some time to do that, do to that all the files have the same name, currentversion.fcpevent one will need to do a lot of manual clicks to back up those files

what do you do?
thanks

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29 Dec 2012 11:07 - 29 Dec 2012 11:07 #19439 by NocoDave
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I use "Time Machine" to back up all my projects and events. It's great, it runs every hour and never causes any problems/interruptions to my work. This is probably helped by having background rendering turned off.

I tell time machine to ignore the folders where I keep my rushes and have an "Automator" folder action set up to back them up to a completely separate drive the instant they are transferred to my Raid from camera (or other source).
Last edit: 29 Dec 2012 11:07 by NocoDave. Reason: correction

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29 Dec 2012 12:24 #19440 by cgbier
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TimeMachine, Additionally, a weekly system B/U with CC

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29 Dec 2012 12:24 #19441 by mester
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sound like a solution, but I dont want to backup the media files and all the other stuff in the folder, only the even/projekt file, and will therefore need to do this manual on every folder, that a lot of clicks

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29 Dec 2012 12:26 #19442 by mester
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but my event/project files is not located on the system drive, therefore a system backup wont do the trick

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29 Dec 2012 16:38 #19450 by Tom Wolsky
Replied by Tom Wolsky on topic Backup event/projects
Time Machine is not restricted to a system drive. You can use Pro Versioner as a project only autosave vault.

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