RE: Backup Advice

["Sylvain Labrosse" <slabross(at)Softimage.COM>]

Title: Backup Advice

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If you do have the luxury of moving the projects to a remote drive, you can indeed do this.  The archived project is your security backup (manual Attic) in case anything happens to the moved projects.

 

Note that if you upgrade to a newer version of DS, restoring from an archive is ideal because not only does it copies the metadata but it triggers also a few items and the data conversion.  Always consult the Release Notes for details about metadata changes that requires such a project restore or media recapture.

 

By the way, your backup process is very good!  :)

Sylvain Labrosse
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From: owner-ds@Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds@Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Troy Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:52 AM
To: DS@Softimage.COM
Subject: Backup Advice

Hello all,

Iâm looking for suggestions in 
regards to backups and simple maintenance. This is my current protocol, but Iâd 
love to hear feedback and know what everyone else is doing...

â I archive 
the current projects at least once a week. 
â When the project is wrapped I 
delete all the old archives leaving only the most recent.
â Iâm using the XP 
Backup utility to make a backup of the archive folder to a remote drive every 
weekend.

I now have several projects that have been closed and archived 
for quite some time and Iâd like to remove them from the startup project list. 
Is it best to move them out of the Projects folder and hold on to them or does 
everyone just delete them after theyâve been 
archived?


Thanks,

Troy