MediaStorm’s Guide to Backing Up

There are two types of people, the saying goes, those whose hard drives have already failed and those whose will. That's why it's important to have redundancy. For every drive you use, you should always have a backup. At MediaStorm, we keep our system software–the OS and all applications including Final Cut Pro–on a drive named A. The media for our projects reside on a B drive. We have a duplicate of each that is backed up religiously. A gets backed up to A_backup; B to B_backup. For that task we use SuperDuper! from shirt-pocket.com. The application copies the entirety of the drive to it's respective clone. In other words, you are mirroring the whole drive, not just backing up specific folders. SuperDuper's! one window interface is quite simple. Simply choose the drive you'd like to back up from the Copy pulldown menu and the backup destination from the to: menu. Choose…

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