[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: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:44:38 -0400
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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