Cheshire Omnimedia

Here’s a quick look at what your backup directory should look like. Note the date convention: year, month, day.

Studio Moral of the Day: Backup everything, every day.

That’s what I do, and so far it hasn’t bit me. Note that in the previous post, we’re buying more hard drives for backing up projects. A best practice is to have the last few “versions” backed up, and to have that hard drive unmounted during session work.

Some audio applications will “look” into all the hard drives if they’re on- you don’t want that, hence unmounting the drive. You should have 2:1 backup space to project space, ie a Terabyte in backups for 500 gigs of storage.

At the end of the day, make a safety copy of the project, and label the safety directory with the date. You should keep a couple of “days” around to be safe. That’s for when you consolidate those drum takes and get rid of the source files- on accident. (Another day why that might “accidently” happen.)