Hi
In the Cubase Help I understood that I can BackUp ONE specified project in a specified location I can choose. This is perfectly clear!
I bought myself an 8T SSD and I was planning to BAckUp all my projects. I looked a bit in the Help and didn’t find an answer.
Is it possible?
Thanks for the help
Daniel
The "backup project"is used for cleaning up a crowded project (removing obsolete material like unused takes, that would otherwise still remain on your disk). Usually, you back up the final version to a new project folder, and then delete the original project folder, if you are really sure you don’t need it anymore.
Also, it may come in handy when you have multiple songs in one project folder, and want to split them up into dedicated project folders.
If you want to back up ALL your project folders, simply copy them to an external disk.
If you are on Windows, invest in software like Beyond compare.(https://www.scootersoftware.com/)
It makes it very easy to keep track of the changes on your original and backup disk, and sync them.
My strategy: I have a project disk of a certain size in my computer, say 4 tb
I also have the same size disk in an external housing ( the backup disk).
The oldest “disk sets” started at sets of 100gb, the most recent sets are 8tb.
I have always done this for ALL my data (projects) disks. So I have multiple sets of disks, going back in time. Also, I keep the windows partition as small as possible (no user data, I moved all my Windows user folders to one of the data disks. This way I also have a backup of all my other data like documents and images).
The big advantage of this way of working is: you always have an exact copy of a disk. So if one crashes, you simply restore the data from the other disk to a new one of the same size.
Using “beyond compare” keeping the backup up to date and identical to the one in my computer, is very easy.
I also use the backup disk to open projects (created with my desktop) on my laptop, work on them, and then sync those results back to my desktop, and the other way around.
This way my laptop does not overflow with data, and I can move to any computer installed with the right software, and work on my projects.
Thanks JB1 for your interesting answer which I shall use in the future
I have some more questions:
All my CUBASE recordings are in a local NTFS disk of 1 T were 800G are busy
The name of the folder is : CUBASE PROJECTS
it has a size of 97Gb, with 5,708 files in252 Folders
In one of those folders - I take as example BANSURI VOL 3- i see typically
BANSURI VOL 3 with size : 248 MB 24 files, content is:
3 Folders:
-AUDIO (79Mb, 3 files)
-IMAGES (7.9Mb, 8 files)
-TRACK PICTURES(empty)
-7 .cpr files from approx 12,500kB and their respective .bak files
My question specifically is:
If I copy my folder CUBASE PROJECTS on an external SSD disk:
Thank you for the help
Daniel
Thank you for your answer
However when I just copy project folder , the files , as I explain here, I can not recreate the project from the copy.
I is only when I use the specific ‘BackUp’ from Cubase that I can do a correct backup and re-create the project.
But that is only valid for ONE project
I wish to do a back-up of all my projects in one -possibly long - operation.
Thanks for the help
If that is the case you have probably audio that is needed in this project, in other folders than the project folder of that song… You can check the expected location of every "needed"audiofile in the pool. it should be: "this project (folder)>> Audio (folder)
if some audio is in a different location, for example "another project (folder)>> Audio (folder)
the only solution to do a proper backup that you can use on other disks, or other systems, is to do a "backup project to new folder"for EVERY project that has it’s audio not in Project folder>> audio folder.
Windows:
Suppose you would do a full backup of your disk. The new disk (the backup disk) will have a different drive letter. Cubase expects to see the old drive letter for files that are not in the correct folder.
remove the old disk and give the backup disk the driveletter of the old one, and everything will work as expected again.
But it is better to make shure al audio for a project is at "project folder >> audio folder.
once you do that, you can freely move project folders to any location