My personal solution
Now I have set myself such an ambitious goal and work for many hours, days… on my idea, on the 3D objects… And suddenly something stupid happens and your work is gone forever. At this stage it wouldn’t be very much, but all the energy and joy with which I created the things … fizzles out.
Like a “punch in the gut”.
Fortunately, it didn’t happen to me. Because of the preparations I made, it shouldn’t happen so soon either. Because there’s nothing I hate as much as having to do again what I created once.
So why am I so sure that I will be saved from this fate.
- We got a NAS from Synology a few years ago, but it had been sitting unplugged in the corner for a long time. I have brought this one back to the start. There is a tool from Synology (Drive Client) with which you can keep your previously configured folders on the computer in sync with the backup on the NAS.
So, every time I save a blend file or a texture, it is immediately backed up to my in-house NAS. - You can think what you want about the big tech companies, but the free offers are OK. Of the various providers, I have made friends with Google. You create an account and the first 15 GB are free of charge. I’ve had the account for years and there’s still plenty of room. Google also has a small tool that you can use to determine the folders that are automatically synchronised in the cloud.
So whenever I save a new version of my 3D models, the same copy goes to the in-house NAS and a second backup goes to the cloud somewhere in the world.
For this reason, I am protected against data loss.
Ok, two things in the end:
Surely one of the two methods is quite sufficient to protect against data loss. I did it because we already had the stuff and we can use it again. Our children now also have an area on the Synology and can also store their things there.
Because it has just been a topic of discussion in court here in Germany. In this article, I have only described my solution for backing up data. This article is not to be understood as an advertisement for a certain company. Neither for Synology nor for Google. I have not received any money from either company for this private opinion.
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