Why offer audio archival to clients?
I believe audio archiving is a nice-to-have additional feature to offer to my clients. Think about future potential re-mixing or re-mastering, for instance.
Audio stems from each session can be carefully filed to multiple sources, to guarantee the preservation of the material for years to come. Please note that I don’t offer full sessions archives, as that’s unrealistic.
Perfecting the backup strategy
I’m constantly perfecting my backup and archive strategy, which includes both my work and personal data, and clients’. I rely on a proven 3-2-1 technique: three copies of everything at all times, two local and one off-site.
Specifically:
- 💽 Two sets of redundant RAID drives running daily backups on both OSes.
- ☁️ Backblaze remote cloud backup.
For extra-redundancy and out of an abundance of precaution, I also run:
- A Time Machine drive with the default hourly setup for macOS.
- A clone of my production SSD external drives on both OSes, so that I can be instantly up and running in case of malfunction.
- A bootable clone of my entire internal drive, for both OSes.