How do you backup your sample and Vst folders?

[eugene]

backups are very important. especially if you port over to a new system. here is what i do to keep things oraganized. and yes, if the material was on a cover disk or i have the orignal installation cd, i still back it up if neccessary/possible. here is what i do...

for samples, i have backup folders that are kept to 650 meg in size. usually there i keep tempo based stuff in the same area. like a folder for each BPM. this makes them easy to find. as i use samples from these folders, those sounds are trasnfered to the folder where the song data is kept. that way everything is together and i dont reuse samples. plus it helps keep the size down

for VSTs: first off, only some VSTs need installer programs so i have two ways to backup. my file tree goes something like this...

a folder that says vst backup
two folders inside that one. one says Instruments, the other says effects.
inside each of those two folders, i have two more folders that say "no setups" and "setups."

when i go to set up another system or repair a crahsed hard drive (more than once), this backup organization works very well. for the non-setup folders, i just drag the .dll files to the vst folder inside cubase. and the setup insturments/effects i run as i need them.

i keep all my effect patches and instrument patches either with the song folder or in another folder where i save that kind of stuff.

...so when you go to make backups, using this folder system keeps everything nice and organized. hope this all helps.

[Electric Phase]

I backup the large folders to dvdr and smaller ones to cdr.

[liars&ashes]

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Jeff

[Jeremy_NSL]

I don't back up my vst folder - its pointless because most of the vsts need to be installed properly (data written to registry etc). So I back up th original zip or cds they came on to dvd-r. Same with samples and tracktion edits.

I rar up the whole bunch to save space, then use quickpar to create redundancy data in case the dvd-r goes bad.

Obsessive? Yes. But I've lost important data before and it feels pretty terrible - especially when its promising, unfinished music.