[ddots-l] Re: Relationship of audio files to CWP projects in a data recovery situation
- From: Justin Kauflin <blindguy500@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:55:15 -0400
Bryan, just curious, what do you do to back up your Windows partitions or
drives? You're right, Time Machine works great, but I know Windows System
Restore isn't getting the job done...:)
Justin
On Jul 14, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> Kevin, the audio files are just .wav. If they can recover them, you can
> import them in to a new project. However, while you'll have the recorded
> audio, without the project, it will be up to you to line all of them up in
> terms of time. Remember that those recordings are of clips, not tracks. One
> track could consist of any number of clips.
>
> I won't nag you about backups, since the need is painfully obvious now, I'm
> sure. The thing is that, while there are many ways to backup your computer,
> you need to find a way that requires little effort. Backing up the computer
> is something that must happen frequently (once every few days, or once a week
> at minimum for a business). If backing up the computer is an involved project
> with lots of steps and screens, you won't want to do it, and you'll
> unconsciously avoid it. Even if you must pay more cash, get something that is
> as automatic as possible.
>
> I'm not sure what to suggest on Windows, though. The Mac has a tool called
> Time Machine built in to the OS. It's pretty powerful: kind of like a
> combination of system restore and a drive imaging tool. You can go back in to
> backups to get individual files, but you can also completely restore the
> computer from a backup. Since it uses incremental backups, if you want a
> specific file, or if you want to restore the whole computer, you can select
> any date when you previously ran the backup for the restore. While it's
> powerful, though, it is brainless to operate. You only set it up once, when
> you first start using it. After that, all you need to do in order to update
> your backup is to plug in the external hard drive. The Mac knows that the
> drive that has been attached is your backup drive, and automatically starts
> updating it with any files that have changed since the last backup.
>
> What I do is to get the backup drive out of the safe on Mondays when I get
> up, and attach it to the computer. I go shower, eat breakfast, and, by the
> time I get back, it has finished updating the backup. Then, I just disconnect
> the drive and put it back in the safe. It is hardly a bother working this
> way, so I don't feel tempted to avoid it. I have a second off-site drive that
> I keep in case of disaster. About once every month or so, I take my backup
> drive to the off-site location (can be the house of a trusted friend, family,
> or bank safety deposit box), leave it, and bring the one that I previously
> left there back home. Once home, I update its backup, and put it back in the
> safe. This way, if a computer dies, I never lose more than a week of data.
> Even in case of fire, all of my business records and projects are protected
> on the backup drive in the safe, and I lose no more than a week. If the
> backup drive itself fails, I can replace it and create new backups from the
> functioning computers, and lose nothing. If there is a horrific disaster that
> completely destroys my house, I have the off-site drive, and, with insurance,
> will be back up with computers in a few days, using my off-site backup, and
> losing no more than a month of data.
>
> This is a lot of protection for a little bit of effort. Hopefully, you can
> work out something similar for the future.
>
> Bryan
>
> From: Kevin Gibbs <mailto:kevjazz@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 8:45 PM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Relationship of audio files to CWP projects
> in a data recovery situation
>
>
> Guys,
> The worst has happened. I had a hard disk crash and I may
> need to have some CWP files recovered whose audio is in the general audio
> folder instead of its own per project folder. If I send the drive to a pro
> data recovery service and they're able to recover data selectively, is there
> any way to direct them to the audio files that relate to the cwp file being
> recovered if they don't have Sonar themselves?
> It doubt it's possible or even practical to cherry-pick
> things this way. I just thought I'd ask.
>
> Kevin
>
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