I recently had the disaster of losing my logic pro files which were stored on a hard drive which corrupted. How do people store Logic Pro files and back them up? I was thinking of buying two new hard drives and storing on both, but wondered how other people do it.
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
Hi,
Sorry to hear about you loss of projects. The advice given so far is really good especially the RAID drive. I have a couple of additional suggestions.
1) I use Time Machine to backup after any session. If I have really been working a project I may back up a few times a day.
2) I use Folder based projects over packages. Makes the backup less storage intensive and faster.
3) Evaluate your regional risks (theft, fire, hurricanes, earthquakes). If your files are valuable consider offsite storage of an archive that is updated every 3-6 months. A copy of critical files stored in a safe deposit box or with a trusted friend will do.
4) Cloud based storage is good for current projects but can be costly for a large archive. One warning is to NOT use a cloud sync folder (e.g. Dropbox or iCloud ) for an active project. The syncing can cause issues when working on the project. Instead copy the project to the cloud storage at the end of a session and update at milestones.
This all may sound like a lot of work but I have all my files dating back 25 years and I have never lost a project.
I hope this helps.
Hi,
Sorry to hear about you loss of projects. The advice given so far is really good especially the RAID drive. I have a couple of additional suggestions.
1) I use Time Machine to backup after any session. If I have really been working a project I may back up a few times a day.
2) I use Folder based projects over packages. Makes the backup less storage intensive and faster.
3) Evaluate your regional risks (theft, fire, hurricanes, earthquakes). If your files are valuable consider offsite storage of an archive that is updated every 3-6 months. A copy of critical files stored in a safe deposit box or with a trusted friend will do.
4) Cloud based storage is good for current projects but can be costly for a large archive. One warning is to NOT use a cloud sync folder (e.g. Dropbox or iCloud ) for an active project. The syncing can cause issues when working on the project. Instead copy the project to the cloud storage at the end of a session and update at milestones.
This all may sound like a lot of work but I have all my files dating back 25 years and I have never lost a project.
I hope this helps.
I have a seperate drive for my projects then a dedicated backup drive for the projects drive.
On top of that I have a 12TB Promise Pegasus drive in Raid 5 that absolutely everything gets backed up to.
So I have a working drive. A dedicated backup to that drive and a global backup. The files are always in 3 places.
Ahh, the Promise Pegasus drive is just a Thunderbolt external RAID.
It has 4, 4TB drives in it that act as one big drive. Because I've formatted it as RAID 5 I lose 4TB but it does mean that any of the 4 drives can fail and be replaced without loss of data, which is the benefit of raid 5.
In essence, it's just a big external thunderbolt hard drive. There are lots of different makes/kinds of these around.
Thank you. I have no idea what the Promise Pegasus Drive is, but I will certainly look it up!
That sounds like a great plan! Thanks again.
Storing Logic Pro x
