Back-up question

[chimmy]

In addition to the ways Tracktion offers to archive projects, will this method work? I like to back-up frequently (especially since I received this warning on screen during a recent boot: "Back-up all data immediatly. Hard drive failure imminent").

Once I have recorded all tracks needed for a project, I copy the entire folder, including the initial edit, to a CD. Each time I work on the edit would it suffice to just save the small "edit" file to a floppy? Then when the project is a finished I would archive it.

Currently, each time I spend a few hours on an edit I'm backing up everything, and as a result ending up with a lot of CDs with redundant audio files on them.

Thanks to anyone who can clarify this for me,
chimmy

[soulata]

easy

there's export as a tracktion archive. set it to lossless and...voila.

k

exports the whole lot as 1 file. works great for me.

[soulata]

sorry, I didn't read your question properly the first time

k

[djsubject]

well first off as i'm shure u have worked out u need a new HD but bak 2 yr question if u burn a multiseshion disk then u can update that folder on yr new edits it will only add the new files but also u will need to replace any modified files with same name sepperte but if u dont do any distructive edits to yr audio then u only need to grab the traction file after u baked up yr mix or save each mix with a diff name like mix1, mix2 ect multi seshion i use is in nero burning rom

hope this is a help

PS Vally if i got somthing roung (exsept my spelling ) let him no plz

[Mr. Tingle]

why not get a new hard drive, they only cost £20-30.

[chimmy]

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

Yea, the new hard drive's been ordered. Where I live it's 1/2 the price online than in the stores so I'm waiting for it to get here.

My question was for even after I get the new drive.

djsubject...Thanks for the tip on multisession CD. I'll check out nero. All I essentially do during edits is split clips, remove some parts (from edit only..I don't remove the source audio file), move some clips around, and add effects, pan, crossfades, and volume envelopes. So if i'm reading you correctly then what I proposed will work? At every editing session I duplicate the previous edit and continue on with the duplicate, so I end up with a sequence of edits for each project. I guess what I'm asking is, when I split clips and just remove parts from the edit only, is this "non-destructive" or "destructive" editing?

Thanks,
chimmy

[djsubject]

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

Yea, the new hard drive's been ordered. Where I live it's 1/2 the price online than in the stores so I'm waiting for it to get here.

My question was for even after I get the new drive.

djsubject...Thanks for the tip on multisession CD. I'll check out nero. All I essentially do during edits is split clips, remove some parts (from edit only..I don't remove the source audio file), move some clips around, and add effects, pan, crossfades, and volume envelopes. So if i'm reading you correctly then what I proposed will work? At every editing session I duplicate the previous edit and continue on with the duplicate, so I end up with a sequence of edits for each project. I guess what I'm asking is, when I split clips and just remove parts from the edit only, is this "non-destructive" or "destructive" editing?

Thanks,
chimmy

u got it bro if u was to say add a file or edit a file in a external editor then that would be distructive but all the things u mentiond will be cool if u save the seperate edits & just bak up that edit (well add it to yr arcive of backed up files from that project then u wont even need nero

[IIRs]

I guess what I'm asking is, when I split clips and just remove parts from the edit only, is this "non-destructive" or "destructive" editing?

non-destructive

I'm pretty sure that Tracktion pops up a warning whenever you ask for a destructive operation, and they're pretty well hidden in the View Source Info -> Edit Audio File -> Basic Editing Operations menu.

[P.T.]

Nero will automatically see changes to your files and create the needed info on the disk.

[djsubject]

oops new i forgot somthing cheerz for the clean up on my sloppy reply! platinumears



buy the way i think i have a mental illness becouse i have a sole witch couldent have been made here on this planet so for me god is verry real its just the man made religen's that r fuked up (well thats wot i think not that i know any thing im just another man)

[P.T.]

Being certain about the unknowable is a form of mental illness.

[IIRs]

buy the way i think i have a mental illness

Is that why you never use any punctuation?

If your belief is strong, why care what my sig says?

[djsubject]

buy the way i think i have a mental illness

Is that why you never use any punctuation?

If your belief is strong, why care what my sig says?

punctuation? need to lern to spell first

not shure why yr sig bothers me (not that it realy dose) i just think faith is blessed & verry helpfull to some weaker soles but same as every man & woman we have the right to beleave wot we want (as long as our man made goverment says its ok)


peace love & unity to all creations

[IIRs]

not shure why yr sig bothers me (not that it realy dose) i just think faith is blessed & verry helpfull to some weaker soles but same as every man & woman we have the right to beleave wot we want (as long as our man made goverment says its ok)

I'd love to argue it with you if you want, but probably better to take it to off-topic..

Sorry chimmy, carry on..

[chimmy]

Platinumears...no sorry necessary. My questions were answered. Thanks everybody.

Take this topic wherever you wish.

I don't post much (to new at DAWging to be helpful to anyone else) but I'm here alot and enjoy the friendly (and sometimes not so friendly) discourse some of these threads follow. Usually good for a chuckle a day.

Thanks again to everyone who replied
chimmy