My laptop HD died the other day. C partition was completely screwed, i couldnt even format the sectors it was on. This would’ve meant 3 months of work lost if i couldnt somehow get what i needed from D partition.
Booting from Ubuntu let me get what i could up to FTP, but the most recent track i was working on gave me I/O errors. What i wound up doing was open it as an archive, extract song.xml and every sample that wasnt lyrics into a new archive. God i would’ve been happy just to get song.xml, but getting most of the track like that simply wouldnt have been possible before.
Thanks for xrns basically rescuing my song. I nearly cried when i thought i’d lose it.
http://www.humyo.com offers unlimited storage…and currently does not charges any rates…
I don’t know when they will introduce premium rates, but enjoy it while it’s free…
If you don’t trust them, store the files encrypted inside an archive…
Many ways to Rome.
Well i have a ridiculous amount of computers (6 at the moment), so my backup solution has always been to mirror all my stuff wherever possible. In this case it was a song i’d been working on while i was in Berlin for a show, so no real backup solution was available at the time.
I’m mortified by the prospect of uploading stuff to a place i don’t feel in complete control. I don’t think online backup is the way to go for me. The way i do it now is keep everything that matters on a separate partition, keep the HD neatly defragged (which also helped big time now) and spread backups around.
It’s done me well for the past 7 years but my god it hurts when you finally lose something. owwie.
On a sidenote, considering i use SVN for pretty much everything else these days, anyone think me insane for contemplating a svn repository for my samples and renoise files?
Man… Diff for xrns would be glorious. It’s a total pipedream, but having a svn based internal backup/version control tool with Renoise 2 would be pretty crazy, if only for maintaining autosaves and such in small autocreated repositories.
Perhaps this could be a checkbox in the song settings; “enable version control”. Saving would still be to xrns, but the xrns would also contain repository structure. Every save would perform a commit to this repository.
The open file with options dialog could give a list of save dates/change log.
Just letting my mind wander. I think it’d be interesting. And entirely optional. Sigh Tortoisesvn for the great win
It shouldn’t be too hard to whip up a Diff tool for Xrns-php right?
I mean the base is already there, we only need a php script to strip the song.xml, do a line count and stock the diff files somewhere.
Use nnCron lite to automate the diff-backup process each minute and you’re done.
but my god it hurts when you finally lose something. owwie.
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