Comments on: Creating a Backup Routine

By: Upgrading to Pro Tools 8 and Snow Leopard | Wizkid Sound

Upgrading to Pro Tools 8 and Snow Leopard | Wizkid Sound — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:47:15 +0000

[...] Back up session data. Even though you’re only updating operating system files you don’t want to risk losing any data. [...]

By: Importance Of Backups

Importance Of Backups — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:54:11 +0000

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By: Robert Dyson

Robert Dyson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:19:32 +0000

Looks like you can back up to any network drive using iTimeMachine, though I haven't used it myself. Looks neat: http://lifehacker.com/341704/time-machine-over-....

Thanks again for your feedback!

By: Robert Dyson

Robert Dyson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:19:32 +0000

Looks like you can back up to any network drive using iTimeMachine, though I haven't used it myself. Looks neat: http://lifehacker.com/341704/time-machine-over-....

Thanks again for your feedback!

By: meltingice

meltingice — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:28:28 +0000

Those are some pretty good points, I hadn't thought of Time Machine getting in the way in a studio environment like you described. In that case, I would agree that the other solutions would be a good idea.

I didn't know about using Time Machine to backup to Amazon S3 either, that's a really cool concept. I wonder since you can backup to S3, if you can backup to other network-based services as well after some tweaking (excluding of course, Time Capsule which was designed to work with Time Machine).

By: cloudberryman

cloudberryman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:15:34 +0000

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By: Robert Dyson

Robert Dyson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:01:06 +0000

Hi, thanks very much for reading! I completely agree, I should have included some info about Time Machine. I've added a note to the article to refer to the comments. Time Machine is great, but I would not want to use it in a studio environment where we often create a whole gigabyte of audio files in less than an hour. I don't want an automatic process grinding on my files when I'm in the middle of a critical recording session. I like the deliberate action of backing up at a good stopping point. The idea of versioning my audio files doesn't jive either – in my situation, I do not want version control potentially interfering with a pristine backup of my drive.

That being said, it's definitely worthwhile for the average user to check out Time Machine. Here's an article from Lifehacker about setting up Time Machine: http://lifehacker.com/software/mac-os-x-leopard...

Another neat thing some folks have done with Time Machine is set it up to back up to a networked drive by hooking in with Amazon S3. http://lifehacker.com/5318547/time-warp-provide...

Thanks again for reading!

By: meltingice

meltingice — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:16:41 +0000

Dropbox is an awesome service, I highly recommend it. Otherwise, why use 3rd party software to backup your Mac when there's Time Machine? Sure it was introduced in Leopard and some people are still stuck on Tiger, but it's a bit silly to write an article about backing up data on Macs and not even mention Time Machine. Just my 2 cents.