{"id":389,"date":"2016-10-19T17:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitness1.mythemecloud.io\/?p=389"},"modified":"2020-09-24T17:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:10:24","slug":"litora-torqent-per-conubia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slaughtersoundmusic.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/19\/litora-torqent-per-conubia\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Really Need To Backup?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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To Backup or not to Backup? That is a very important question.<\/p>

There is a saying among the tech driven community: “If your digital data is not in at least two places<\/p>

then it may not exist” \u00a0 <\/span>I find this to be very true.\u00a0 <\/span>Many\u00a0 <\/span>people don’t realize the severity of this<\/p>

until it actually happens to them.\u00a0 <\/span>Unfortunately I had a\u00a0 <\/span>bad encounter once that really woke me up and<\/p>

made me realize just how important it is to back up often and to back up your work in separate places.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I’ve been recording music for a quite a while now.\u00a0 <\/span>When I first started recording using a multitrack digital\u00a0 <\/span>system, I was using a stand alone digital multitrack machine. It was a nice\u00a0 <\/span>machine and sounded<\/p>

great.\u00a0 <\/span>This was the mid 90’s and digital hard drives were a fairly new technology then, but were to supersede reel to reels and the popular ADAT digital tape machines to be the thing of the future.\u00a0 <\/span>That was a good prediction, because they are\u00a0 <\/span>the staple of most all recording studios today.\u00a0 <\/span>They didn’t<\/p>

require expensive tape,\u00a0 <\/span>you could back up the hard drive, erase it, and keep recording new projects<\/p>

over and over again.\u00a0 <\/span>The biggest drawback was that this machine which was state of the art in the<\/p>

mid 90’s only had a 1 gigabyte hard drive, so I had to constantly back up the data at the end of the night so I could be ready for the next session.\u00a0 <\/span>This could take upwards of an hour to do. \u00a0 <\/span>Back then that was acceptable though. That was the biggest hard available for that unit, and that’s how I had to do it.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Then came along\u00a0 what I though could be <\/span>the savior to end my dilemma of my having to stay up all night backing up data.<\/p>

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The “Jazz Drive”\u00a0 <\/span>This was basically an external hard drive that hooked up to the recorder and allowed you to record to external 1 gigabyte cartridges. I thought “wow now I can have a special cartridge for each artist until they finish their project” I could just pop the cartridges in and out and keep going<\/p>

without having to backup the small internal hard drive that kept getting full anymore. It worked great for a while and I thought this was a great answer to one of my problems until one day…<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I was working with a talented female singer songwriter who had been recording off and on for about<\/p>

a month. I had loaded in her cartridge we were recording no problems until all of a sudden the recorder<\/p>

just locked up. I tried everything I could, and then all of a sudden I got an “error” message on the display. That said the data had been compromised.\u00a0 <\/span>Then panic began to set in even though I tried not to show it.<\/p>

I said to myself\u00a0 <\/span>“okay keep calm we’ll let it cool down for a while and come back to it later”.\u00a0 <\/span>That didn’t even work. Unfortunately I was never able to retrieve any of her 8 songs she had been working on.<\/p>

I had to offer for her to come in (free of course) and re-record her songs until she was satisfied.<\/p>

(Ouch)! I immediately stopped using the removable cartridges and just used the internal drive that was in the machine, even if that meant I had to stay over 1 to 2 hours just backing up the data to dat tapes.<\/p>

These cartridges costed about $100 each and only held one gigabyte of data!\u00a0 <\/span>I later found out that I<\/p>

was not the only one who had this problem with the Jazz Drive system.\u00a0 <\/span>We found\u00a0 <\/span>what was happening was that the disk was thinner that normal and tended to warp when it got hot under extended usage.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Shortly after that I got into the computer based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) type system, where you either use a Mac or PC computer to run the recording\u00a0 <\/span>software of your choice.\u00a0 <\/span>This type of system<\/p>

has tons of expandability and I felt would be around for quite a while.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Although we can’t always predict what will be the next big thing, one thing is for sure though\u2026.<\/p>

All hard drives will ultimately fail one day<\/b>.\u00a0 <\/span>Fortunately for us living in 2020 going into 2021 is that<\/p>

memory is ridiculously cheaper than it used to be years ago.\u00a0 <\/span>In 1995 a 1 gig drive cost about $100.<\/p>

Now for $65 you can get a 2000\u00a0 <\/span>( 2 terabyte) gigabyte internal drive!\u00a0 <\/span>It’s also so much easier to back up your data too!\u00a0 <\/span>I recommend that you buy\u00a0 <\/span>several external hard drives. One for backing up a work in progress and another one for backing up finished projects ect. All you have to do is drag the project folder from one hard to another to make a copy.\u00a0 <\/span>What used to take hours to do can now be done in a matter of seconds!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I used to backup to dvd’s so I could re-load the information in later.\u00a0 <\/span>The problem with that is that it still<\/p>

is time consuming. The way I do it now is to buy an inexpensive internal hard drive (without the enclosure)<\/p>

and just pop them into a USB docking unit. They are more vulnerable to damage because there is no enclosure, but if you are not traveling with them in a back pac or the like, they work great.<\/p>

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\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>A friend of mine whom had a hard drive fail, had contacted a company that specialized in hard drive<\/p>

data recovery\u00a0 <\/span>from failed hard drives. \u00a0 <\/span>He thought this was going to be his answer until he saw what<\/p>

the fees were.\u00a0 <\/span>$2,500 to $ 7,500 to recover the data! \u00a0 <\/span>I think it’s a much more better idea to just backup the data so when it does fail, you have a backup plan!<\/p>

Remember:\u00a0 <\/span>In the digital world, If it doesn’t exist in a least two places it may not exist at all! <\/b><\/p>

-Eliot Slaughter<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Backup or not to Backup? That is a very important question. There is a saying among the tech driven community: “If your digital data is not in at least two places then it may not exist” \u00a0 I find this to be very true.\u00a0 Many\u00a0 people don’t realize the severity of this until it 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