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The thought of online backup never occurred to me since I had so much files, and most places would offer only a few hundred gigs. As a 3D artist, I work with huge renders and massive files. I thought about getting more hard drives, but that was quite an expensive idea. Luckily, one of their employees was forced to work at home at that time and had the files in her apartment, and that way she saved the day.īut you can’t really rely on such luck, can you? Online Backup?Īfter my incident I tried finding a better way to backup my files. That would have taken them 30 people working for a year to recover their loss, and at the time might have pushed the company to bankruptcy. In his new book, Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar, tells a horrifying story of how someone accidentally erased the files of Toy Story 2, and when they turned to their backup system for recovery it turns out that the system was not working properly for a while, and the files were truly gone. It could happen to anyone, no matter how prepared you are. What are the chances of that? But it’s not just me. I’ll give you an example: A few months ago my computer hard drive failed, and at the same day one of my external hard drives failed too. That quote was by a former teacher of mine, and I still remember it.

If you have two backups, you have one backup. If you have one backup, you have no backup. I’m a careful person when it comes to my files. While I was working on my first short film I even backed it up at school and on my girlfriends computer, just in case. I would manually back up my projects to either hard drive, and the most important projects would be backed up to both. I had 2 external hard drives that were connected to my main computer. I’ll start by telling you about what used to be MY backup system. Specifically, about the best online backup service I tried.