Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
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28-02-2013
, 10:59 PM
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Backup software solutions
I don't need anything super fancy, just incremental daily (or more frequent) backups of certain folders and drives. The thing is, windows backup system, mac time machine, and some other systems that I've seen seem to create images, catalogs, weird zipped buckets of data that can be restored using the same software. I don't trust that. I just want my files AS IS in another location. I don't get why there has to be a complicated system that can't be accessed by mounting the drive and looking at the files.
So, any thoughts?
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01-03-2013
, 12:21 AM
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For day to day stuff like Maya project files and images i'm working on i use dropbox i just save everything in my dropbox folder and it's sent straight to dropboxes servers.
My linux nas also has two drives and mirrors everything in case the first drive goes down. That's about all i do. I store about a TB of data at amazon and pay around 15 bux a month.
Dave
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01-03-2013
, 12:29 AM
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I'm not sold on the cloud thing yet, because if my internet goes down (which happens) then I can't backup nor access my data. And I don't like paying monthly fees
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01-03-2013
, 12:51 AM
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As for fees well if you store 100gb of your most important stuff in the cloud with something simple like google drive (that's a lot of maya projects
) it does a great job of seamless file & folder backup, everything stays local for speed and if your hd goes bang just reinstall the software on a new system and everything is back. now it's true that while your internet is down it wont be backing up but you still have access to the data and as everything is backed up minute to minute the most you will lose is the file you are working on while the net is down, that is if your computer blew up at the exact same time the internet was offline
give the free google drive a go 5 gb for free 100 gb is $4.95
Anyway enough cloud backup evangelising lol I'm sure other people with have solutions that might fit you better
Cheers
Dave
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01-03-2013
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But you want it automated, which I have no idea about. I've never had a need for it, myself. I back up my work manually, regularly, and if something goes horribly wrong, anything that isn't backed up is usually disposable.
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01-03-2013
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01-03-2013
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Even with cloud solutions, you still need software to control and monitor the backups, right? I miss rsync terribly.
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01-03-2013
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Whenever, I make significant changes to software on my system I use acronis to make an image of my system disk. I keep my data/projects on a separate share then my OS. This way system images are just the os and software installed on the system.
Unfortunately storage is finite so I just keep my current system image and the last one or two images and I have been bitten a couple times when something sneaks in undetected and I have imaged the disk a couple times and the last clean image has been deleted. But in almost all cases I just had to identify and remove or fix the problem in the current setup and then make a new image.
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01-03-2013
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For your project weekly full-backups, do you also have a limited number? Can acronis remove the oldest full when the drive gets full?
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03-03-2013
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I have a 15 TB NAS, configured as raid 6,
that everything gets backed up to on a daily basis.
Raid 6 because I have the ability to lose 2 drives at once, and still able to rebuild.
Have settled on Acronis after trying 1/2 dozen different programs,
and it seems to work the best, with the best options and compression.
*edit* of course mine is also a Windows system.
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