[ddots-l] Re: Relationship of audio files to CWP projects in a data recovery situation
- From: Bryan Smart <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:21:08 -0400
Other than the fact that your personal, financial, and confidential projects
for clients would be stored on a server out on the Internet where anyone that
works at Drop Box can surf through your files, hackers could gain access
through an as-yet undiscovered security flaw, or the company could close shop
and take your backups with them, nothing, really. *smile* Besides that, you
can't image entire computers to/from Drop Box or any of those other online
backup services.
Also, I currently have about 4TB of permanent backups. Transfering that to/from
an online service would take quite a while.
Bryan
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Behalf Of Dominique
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:15 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Relationship of audio files to CWP projects in a data
recovery situation
Importance: High
What about drop box?
http://www.dropbox.com
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Justin Kauflin
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 8:55 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Relationship of audio files to CWP projects in a data
recovery situation
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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