Many people don't use traditional backup software and methods for backing up media libraries due to their (usually) static nature. Once you rip and tag a CD, the files created may never change. What many of use do instead is create a mirror copy of the library and then periodically update this mirror.
Using directory and file syncing software, the first time you make a backup will be the same as doing a full backup and will take the same amount of time. After that, only changes you make to the master will have to be updated on the copy, and will generally take just a few minutes. If you happen to make some wholesale changes to your master library - for example, if you made a library-wide tagging change to all files - then the next time the backup procedure is run it will have to copy all files again. But that should be rare. A couple of advantages to this approach are 1) it's very simple and 2) it requires no more space on the backup device than the size of the main library. There are some potential pitfalls, however - it means that you have only one copy of each file in your backup, unlike a traditional backup that may keep each generation of change, as well as keeping backup copies of deleted files. The traditional method would let you go back and restore the files as it was in July of 2013, for instance. That might be good if you made a change to the file's tagging that you found was in error and you wanted to undo. Or if the file became corrupted, or accidentally deleted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101036 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
