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Backing up your session

Backing up your session - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Backing up your session

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- Creating backup copies of your finished work is important for archival purposes, but equally important to guard against data loss in the case of a disaster. Audio files and entire Pro Tools sessions can be lost due to a hard drive crash, computer theft, accidental deletion, or natural disasters such as a fire or flood. And although you can't protect all of your assets against every possible threat. You can backup your session files and associated data to help you recover. So let's say you want to create a session backup on a separate external drive, or another backup drive location. There are several ways to make copies of your Pro Tools sessions, some options are more effective than others at protecting your data. Option one is to use the Save As command under the File menu and select your backup drive. This option, really will not help you safeguard a session, as it will make a copy of the session file only during any recovery effort, all of the audio files will still be missing…

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