How often do you completely backup poser??? as a mac user I have can simply drag and drop my entire poser application folder ( runtime and all) over to my external high capacity firewire Drive. i do this every few days as I have been installing alot of new content lately. what your back up routine??... for poser

for me heaven forbid it happen but first I cry then I say WHY WHY WHY then I start drinking then I cry some more then I look over at the hundered or so CD's with my poser content then I cry then I start to rebuild did I say I cry

For Mac, I do the same - aren't external firewire drives delicious? :) For Windows, I backup the entire Runtime folder occassionally to a separate internal drive and then scoot it to a DVD (or two). stallion, you owe me a vanilla latte capuccino with ram's milk!! ;)

After I've made a lot of changes or installed a lot of new content I like to write the Geometries, libraries, and textures folders to CDs. I now am able to write DVDs so most of the goodies fit onto one disc. I need only take out the one or two custom Characters sub-folders from the libraries folder to keep the backup under the, what, 4GB?. I'm with Stallion! Great poem ;) Rance

Once a month I: before I go off to bed, I create a hi-compression winrar file of the poser folder; as it takes about 3-5 hours to create, I then go to bed. The next time I access my system, I burn the .rar file to a DVD; I use 2 DVD's, unclosed, and alternate between them; I can fit 3 RAR'd backups on each DVD (zip will only fit 2, which is why I use RAR), so 2 blanks last me about 6 months. I've had to restore once since I started doing this, worked fine. My work-in-progress folder is set up to mirror across my network nightly to another machine, so I don't bother backing it up. Yesssss, I could save enormous amounts of space doing incremental backups. However, as an MCSE, LAN & WAN administrator to banks, government agencies and various other places I have come to the realization that SIMPLE IS BETTER.

I only back up stuff I need to when it happens but I always backup any downloads (even free ones). In poser I usually only backup figures or props that I make myself.

I have two computers and a external USB harddrive. I use CopyTo Synchronizer to keep the runtimes (and a folder with all my zips and installs) the same on all the drives and the external is my back up/transfer device. I synchronize the drive about every week or two, depending on how much stuff i install or rearrange. I also back everything up to cd (no dvd yet) every couple of months. In less than 20 min I can have all my drives/backups synchronized.

For windows I backup a complete image of my HD monthly to a USB HD using Acronis software. I can recover XP, all software and passwords in about 30 minutes. In the recovery process the HD is partitioned and reformated so it is exactly the same as at the time it was backed up.

Really big runtime folders are hard to backup on DVD let alone CD. I see Iomega have a USB cartridge system that does 35 Gb rewritable a shot.

I'm on a PC.

I have an external Maxtor USB drive (120 gigs) with a back-up button configured in such a way that when I simply push the button, it back-ups my whole Poser folder's added/removed/changed files. Extremely simple - no fuzz - no broken cds. Then I keep a "bare-bone" installation in a separate backed-up and zipped file just in case something messes Poser up.

Message edited on: 01/21/2005 06:57