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Let’s dispel any confusion about these terms.īackup is what we do to copy our production data on a regular basis, and this copy is stored locally in order to quickly offload and restore files as needed.Īrchival is the long-term, offsite storage of data that you don’t need to access on a regular basis. That lesson started me on my path to evangelize on behalf of good backup habits. Or, realistically, asked one of the second engineers to run a backup. In retrospect, I probably should have put crime scene tape around my workstation. I expressed my displeasure by nearly tearing the control room door off its hinges. But most of the session multitracks were gone forever. Result: disaster? Lawsuit? Expensive retakes? Fortunately, I printed a DAT tape (remember those?) for client approval and was able to lift the mixes from the DAT.

Apparently there wasn’t time to back anything up. In my two hour absence, a studio mangler (sorry, manager) decided that he needed hard drive space on the drive I was using-and promptly deleted 3/4 of the session, including all of the mixes. After working on this project for three days straight, I needed to go home for a quick shower and a clean shirt, and would return later to QC all of the mixes. This was high volume production work, with many, many versions: vocals/no vocals, tag/no tag versions ranging in length from 2–60 seconds English, Spanish, and French versions rock, country, orchestral, and hip hop versions. Once upon a time I made radio station ID music. Recently, I conducted an informal Facebook survey of engineers, and 100% of them reported using some form of data backup. So that you will always have a copy, even if the record label folds.To keep everything organized so you know what you have.Because you never know when you’re going to lose something or when a hard drive will fail.We’ll talk about some options and guidelines to help preserve your work.

How do you save your data? How do you know what to save? How do you keep track of all the stuff you generate? Remember, the files you should move to the new drive depend on the type of drive you’ve got.Yes! Whether you’re a newly minted musician, engineer, producer, digital artist, or a seasoned veteran of the loudness wars, we all face the same conundrum: what do you do with your digital session data at the end of the day? This is a challenge faced by everyone who creates any kind of content on a digital device. Once you’ve got your backups in order, it’s time to start clearing up some room on your computer’s internal drive! You can do this by moving your sample library, Kontakt instruments, project files, and any other files that don’t need to be on your computer to your external drive. However, to be extra safe we recommend buying a couple of drives and using the 3-2-1 method, which you can learn more about here.

This way, if anything happens to your computer you have all of your files safe and ready to go on a drive that can be stored in your closet, in a drawer, or even at your parent’s house.īy doing this, you reduce the risk that your hard drive will crash and erase all of your precious music production tools and projects. Well, for starters, you should be backing up all of your digital files to at least one external drive regularly. So, once you’ve picked out a hard drive, how do you start using it?