![]() ![]() Within Crashplan I can select different folders I want to backup from one drive or computer. For a mere $59,99 a year I can have a backup running without limits on size. For this I found Chrashplan to be my ideal partner. I need a cloud based backup that is scalable and can grow with me instead of forcing me to delete stuff, at the most inconvenient times. If I change one thing inside the folder on either end it will update on both sides. I create a new folder on my Drobo inside my main Photo folder and I’m done!īitTorrent Sync starts looking for files and starts sending them from one end to the other. I fill in the key I copied and I am asked to select an existing folder or create a new one. I’m presented with the same windows, I select the “Options” button (the cogwheel on the right) and click on “Enter a Key” I choose the Read & Write Key, as this will allow me to change things on both ends.įrom here I go to my Mac Mini/Drobo and open BitTorrent Sync. In the lower region of the preferences pane, is a fly-out menu called “View Key”, click on it and you’re presented by two keys. You can repeat the “preferences thing” for each folder you want to sync. It then asks me if I want the other end to have read permissions or read/write permissions and send links via mail etc. On my laptop I just add a folder, in my case my entire “Pictures” folder. This little free app runs on both my laptop as on my mac mini/Drobo. I need my pictures folder to always sync back home. Let’s start with data transfer from laptop to mac min/Drobo. Advertisementsįor this I use a number of tools. So how do I get my data from my laptop to my mac mini/Drobo and from there into the cloud, for off-shore backups. But still, it is a piece of hardware that can (and probably will) die on me eventually. The Drobo is almost hassle free when it comes to disks dying and replacing disks with newer and bigger ones. This Drobo is seen as a single drive and holds all of my media, from movies, music, and all of my photo’s, both personal and my professional work. I have a Drobo connected to it, which houses a rough 8 TB of space. At home I have a Mac Mini that works as a home theatre pc under my television. It has all my running projects on it and all my new photo’s are created on its mere 500 GB drive. I have a Laptop to carry around and work on. Now there are numerous ways to maintain a backup, but I’m going to share one that has been working for me the past few years, and makes me feel secure about my data. I needed a better backup plan to safeguard my body of work, without having to spend too much time on this task. I’m a creative artist, and even though I have OCD tendencies, I get bored with tedious tasks and mistakes are easily made. The problem with new drives to store your projects is that you need to copy your data over and over, you get sloppy, you forget projects, you ignore folders, and in the end you lost some precious pictures in the transfer process. Next to that I kept running out of space locally, and kept buying new drives for my Drobo to accommodate my expanding archive. Luckily I don’t do animation anymore so my projects aren’t that super large anymore, but I have been photographing and editing work for a couple of years now and the data pile keeps growing. I lost them when building a new PC, I lost them when my drive crashed, fell, burnt, and I even lost them while watching in horror as I mistakenly said yes to “are you sure you want to format drive D”?.ĭata keeps piling up, and to keep everything archived we need at least double the amount of drive space. ![]() Over the years, as a digital artist, I have on occasion lost bodies of work. Royalty free clothes foleys in WAV et MP3 format.Backups! We all need them, we hardly make ‘em! A set of textiles-based sound effects such as clothing, sheets, Velcro and zippers-lightning, capes. ![]()
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