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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 17:00:24 2022 No.6025334 View Reply Original Report

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Digitalfags, how do you back up your art?
I'm sure you don't upload all your shit online since not everything that is worth saving is worth posting, also you can't upload .csp files and the like. I think it would be devastating if all the shit I had drawn since I started learning was lost, but I'm not really sure what the best option for backing it up is.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 17:34:40 No.6025354 Report

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>>6025334
i put all my art in an sd card i use on my phone. however this reminded me i lost all of my poetry stored in my old phone's notes when it broke, now im sad...

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 17:43:51 No.6025360 Report

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just buy an external drive

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 17:45:41 No.6025361 Report

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>>6025334
I print all my drawings and save them in a sleeved 3 ring binder

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 17:51:48 No.6025372 Report

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>>6025334
Bare minimum, you need to get an external drive and back up everything in case your primary drive/device dies.

If you have other files to back up besides art, like movies and such, consider a Network Attached Storage (NAS) that will allow you to have multiple redundant drives with your data in case one of those drives fails.

Ideally, you should also have an offsite backup as well in case of theft or fire, etc. OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, or other such service. This usually incurs a monthly fee, but you can get some with free storage like Dropbox or Mega.

At the end of the day, the question is how important is your art to you. You’ve potentially spent years of your life on this stuff, do you really want to take the chance to lose it all?

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 18:46:29 No.6025428 Report

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>>6025334
I don’t even back up my art. After I upload it to any platform then I delete it to make room for other drawings.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 19:12:08 No.6025461 Report

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>>6025428
do you work on a dinosaur pc with 200mb storage or what

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Anonymous Sat 23 Apr 2022 19:28:16 No.6025478 Report

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>>6025334
> Leave file on ipad
> Duplicate file incase one gets fucked somehow
> Upload PNG versions to Gdrive
> Upload procreate file itself to Gdrive
> Dl all of them to desktop
> Move to art folders on main ssd
> Update art folders on backup harddrive
> Update art folders on external ssd
> Post JPG versions on social media/art sites
Is my art worth this much preservation? Probably not, but I like knowing they're there.
One time I needed an old drawing, but I couldn't find it anywhere, until I found some obscure folder in the depths of my gdrive.
Now I make shittons of backups to ensure it never happens again.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 04:23:47 No.6026085 Report

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If you want to be sure then have a storage harddrive, a backup harddrive and put it on the cloud. Don't rely only on one method, have redundancies.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 05:53:13 No.6026156 Report

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Github lfs

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 05:59:58 No.6026161 Report

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>>6025334
This happened to me, I lost all my progress from a hdd crash and I never uploaded any of it so it's gone forever. Make backups on other hard drives and just upload it on google in a passworded .rar/.zip and you'll be fine

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 06:07:03 No.6026164 Report

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>>6026161
hdds can be recovered you have to take them to a "lab" and they can copy some/most of it to a new drive

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 06:08:09 No.6026165 Report

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>>6026164
>"anon, we managed to recover the images off your hard drive"
>massive spread of unfinished loomis heads and shaky attempts at lolicon pornography

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 06:12:24 No.6026168 Report

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>>6026165
i assume they saw worse by now

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 06:23:47 No.6026177 Report

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>>6025334
I save everything to a nextcloud folder plus a daily sync to onedrive

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 07:35:43 No.6026222 Report

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This may sound retarded, but I've been emailing myself my art for years. It goes something like this.
>Every few months I attach full resolution pieces of finished all in one email, I then email various email accounts I use on different platforms for different shit
>This way if I lose access to one account for whatever reason, I still have all my stuff
>You can mark emails to never be deleted

I also upload my shit on normal places like Twitter, IG, Art Station, ect. So the chances of me losing anything is very slim.

And if all else fails my mother who is a sweetheart has all of my art that I send her printed and framed/stored. Says it's for "when I become a famous artist one day".
Remember to call your mom once in awhile and tell her you love her, /ic/.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 08:21:33 No.6026248 Report

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>>6025334
I don't, I delete everything periodically
looking at it just makes me angry

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Anonymous Sun 24 Apr 2022 08:22:53 No.6026249 Report

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>>6026164
This costs a lot of money doesn't it? Like $500+ USD

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 00:28:27 No.6027253 Report

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>>6025334
buy a hard drive
now
Buy another one.
backup your files.

how is this even a question.

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 00:36:05 No.6027260 Report

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>>6027253
>>6025334

and on't forget, use PNG for lossless storage.
jpeg a no no

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 03:30:35 No.6027446 Report

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>>6025360
I've had multiple external hard drives die on me. the only safe way to do it is have them compressed and saved in multiple places and to transfer to new hard disks every 5 or so years.

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 05:28:23 No.6027590 Report

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>>6025334
use a cloud service from a big company like google drive, that way it's less likely for them to close doors in the future and vanish with your stuff
buy external storage for extra caution

for me, the safest method is to upload stufff on a private twitter account, i've had one since 2008 and it's still holding up

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 07:26:06 No.6027745 Report

Quoted By: >>6029101

How retarded is to use an USB as my backup for drawings?

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Anonymous Mon 25 Apr 2022 08:19:05 No.6027800 Report

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>>6025334
I use Google images/drive

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Anonymous Tue 26 Apr 2022 01:19:51 No.6029101 Report

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>>6027745
eh.
The point isnt "what storage medium is best"
Its "Do you have redundant backups. Then it literally doesn't matter. Buy usb's if your poor buy hdds or sdds if your not. Mix it up. Save it on a fucking CD-RW. Cloud service. Get good enough where other people save your art.

^^^^^Pick two^^^^^

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Anonymous Tue 26 Apr 2022 01:41:56 No.6029116 Report

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>>6025334
>how do you back up your art?
i don't. if it's gone it's gone.

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