Back-up

[BIGBANGBUZZ]

What are you peeps using for back-ups these days? both OS disk and sessions... Tape?, Harddrive in a dock?
What about software.. I'm going to use carbon copy to back up my os-x/Protools install disk.

[rcutz]

Hi take a look ate gobbler.com

I'm using it and like it.

[ThisIsSka]

We have multiple backups for one computer, we have a mirror of our session/audio drive within the system. Projects are archived onto a NAS as well as a copy onto a DVD (if we have the space). Gobbler is used occasionally as well. All of this done manually.

Carbon Copy Cloner is a great program. I've used it on my personal macs.

[kosmokrator]

after checking out many corporate and even enterprise-level backup solutions (in my former life I was a networking engineer), I decided to write my own script-based system with rsync as backend.

What I wanted is a system that

- backs up when I'm done with work, not on certain pre-defined times of day
- doesn't create archives/images but a simple browsable filesystem
- has a very trusted mechanism for copying
- only copies changed and new files
- handles all Mac-specific file-bullshit like resource forks etc. correctly
- writes a logfile to syslogd
- can backup over an encrypted session (SSH tunnel) if necessary

What it does is after the workday, instead of clicking 'shutdown', I click the backup-icon.
It then transfers all new files and everything that changed on my audio drives onto the backup medium, whatever it is (NAS, external harddrive, internet), writes all copy actions to syslog and when done shuts down the computer. If anything failed, the computer doesn't shutdown and you can have a look at the logfile to see what the problem was.

All completely automatic, never failed me.

If there's enough interest in that, I could maybe write a small installer for it (you have to manually edit the config file right now) and make it available to the public.
If anyone is interested, drop me a line. EMail on my website.

[kosmokrator]

Originally Posted by kosmokrator

after checking out many corporate and even enterprise-level backup solutions (in my former life I was a networking engineer), I decided to write my own script-based system with rsync as backend.

What I wanted is a system that

- backs up when I'm done with work, not on certain pre-defined times of day
- doesn't create archives/images but a simple browsable filesystem
- has a very trusted mechanism for copying
- only copies changed and new files
- handles all Mac-specific file-bullshit like resource forks etc. correctly
- writes a logfile to syslogd
- can backup over an encrypted session (SSH tunnel) if necessary

What it does is after the workday, instead of clicking 'shutdown', I click the backup-icon.
It then transfers all new files and everything that changed on my audio drives onto the backup medium, whatever it is (NAS, external harddrive, internet), writes all copy actions to syslog and when done shuts down the computer. If anything failed, the computer doesn't shutdown and you can have a look at the logfile to see what the problem was.

All completely automatic, never failed me.

If there's enough interest in that, I could maybe write a small installer for it (you have to manually edit the config file right now) and make it available to the public.
If anyone is interested, drop me a line. EMail on my website.

That being said, I checked out Gobbler, and it's a very promising service.

They have massive speed problems if you're not in the US, though. I talked to their CEO about it, they were very nice and professional.

Also, if assets are not located in the Audio Files folder in your session directory, they won't get backed up.

[Mundox]

For our 4 different systems I made a script using Automator and rsync.
It copies all the new files and updated files from the work drives on the network and copies to a central RAID every night. Then it lists all the sessions that were backed up and emails me. Every now and then I clone this drive to another drive to take offsite. It beats the Retrospect and tape system we used to have.

[NReichman]

Retrospect 9 – local hard drive backup

Crashplan - offsite cloud backup

[kosmokrator]

Originally Posted by Mundox

For our 4 different systems I made a script using Automator and rsync.
It copies all the new files and updated files from the work drives on the network and copies to a central RAID every night. Then it lists all the sessions that were backed up and emails me. Every now and then I clone this drive to another drive to take offsite. It beats the Retrospect and tape system we used to have.

Yes that's pretty much what I did as well, just not Automator but shell scripts.

It really beats Retrospect et al. in every way possible. Now everybody hail rsync!

[nstu]

Originally Posted by kosmokrator

That being said, I checked out Gobbler, and it's a very promising service.

They have massive speed problems if you're not in the US, though. I talked to their CEO about it, they were very nice and professional.

I've been using gobbler since Nov'11 and have no issues with speed.
I am in germany, got an telekom 50.000 dsl and have constantly high upload and download rates.

The gobbler team and the community is very friendly and helpful.
The software is stable (on mac) and if you went in problems, they help out very fast.

I don't work for them but i am a happy user. Give it a try and decide on your own.