Thalek posted at 1:24 AM Mon, 6 November 2023 - #4477362

JustBeCause posted at 7:20 AM Sat, 4 November 2023 - #4477298

Matter of fact I backup everything I got 2 times or more, often I buy a new HD to make full backups every year especially for the 3D stuff. I never of thought loosing the work drive, this one can't be backed up as every day there are big changes and hooked up with all the temp, setup functions of 3D programs. A real add remove drive until as long as a project is not finished, then when done it gets moved to a drive and backed up. Something like this never happen in the past 20 years! 

Yes that Fog box can really be useful, I started making a sort of puppet master out of it. A morphing Atmosphere box, adding interactive master dials that will be also changing the animated enabled material node settings, this will ease up the effect you wish having for your renders. Now just waiting to see if Poser will get a fix for the render speed issues on the next update .....

Would getting a large drive and doing incremental backups help any? If you did an incremental backup once a week, you couldn't lose more than a week's worth of work, horrific as even that thought is.  (Not that I've taken my own advice, but as drives are coming down in cost and increasing in capacity, it would be a good idea to start taking my own advice.) If you have a lot of files moving in and out every day, the average incremental backup would stay roughly the same size as the now removed files would not be included.

Am I being Commodore Obvious here, or did I actually say something useful for a change?

I'll have to look into using fog occasionally again.

If you are running Windows, Karen's Replicator is still available, I have been told the author is no longer with us,  but it still works and is free.  It automates the whole backup process  and is really just a question of setting it up and letting it run in the background. The neat part is the program only makes incremental backups but the whole folder or drive structure is maintained.  This allows the backups to be quick but if a restore is ever required it is just a question of starting the process and letting it run.  The program has all sorts of options like the back up days, frequency whether deletions are propagated or not and many other options.   A quick search of the Internet for Karen's Replicator should find the correct version for the version of Windows you are running.  I have used the program for years and have also used it for recovery more than once and it worked like a dream.  

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.