How can i backup my project?

Unity Engine
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So i don’t know if this is the right place to ask this but after 6 months of work i really would like to make a online back-up of my project. I have several local back ups but they are all on my pc so if my pc’s HDD crashed or gets destroyed some how i would lose everything. So my question is is there a good free service where i can back-up my project easily. My project is about 12GB. I would not mind buying the software as long as i dont have to pay a monthly fee.

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For something basic try google drive, otherwise if you need content management you could try bitbucket.

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Yes but is there some sort of software that would allow me to sync my project to the web so that i dont have upload it all the time since it is 12GB or atleast something so that i would only have to upload new files or files that is changed.

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Unfortunately monthly fees is how everyone charges things these days. I recommend you use version control which is a good practice in its own right and can achieve your goals. Also you would only be uploading/downloading the changes when you push commits so it wont be 12GB every time.

Bibucket has a 2GB repo limit. You could use Stash which is $10 a month or just $10 if you want to install on a server yourself. It’s really easy to install but then you would need to pay for the server. If you use stash I recommenced at least 1GB of ram on the server but 2GB or more would be preferred.

Gihub is an option but they probably have a repo size limit too.

You can always set up your own git server. A little tricky and no gui but it’s feasible. Again you would need your own server.

If you want your own server you can get linode, digital ocean or a VPS.

If you don’t want to do version control you could use drop box, google drive, one drive, sugar sync or many other things that lets you sync files.

I personally have One drive as part of my office 365 subscription and it has unlimited space now. Use to be 1TB and then went to 3TB and now it is supposedly unlimited and I am only paying something like $10/month and it comes with office of course.

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Really can i use onedrive to sync files? I have like 150GB on onedrive(got it for free for no real reason) but i never really use it except for my school work.

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Yep. I have it on my laptop and desktop and use it to sync my work files. I have all my music and other things on it but i have them set to “online only” on my laptop since my laptop has a 256GB SSD compared to my desktop with second drive that is 4TB and where I mapped onedrive to be.

You wont get as much control as you would with the other solutions but if you have or want office 365 it is a cheap solution.

I do encounter issues sometimes though. When it fails to sync it creates a copy of the file names file-mypcname which will be annoying if you don’t have a table connection.

Personally I suggest you consider an option with version control like stash.

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Unfuddle has a 50gb limit and starts at $6 a month (one user + one project).

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There’s always the option of a removable drive and sync to that.
I realize that yes online backups would be a little safer since anything can crash.

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Github.com, and use SmartGit as your Git Client (its on both Mac and PC)

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Do people not read the terms of service/use for the places where they store there data? You should. You really, really should…

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One thing to note: if you turn on Visible Meta Files in your project settings (Edit → Project Settings → Editor), then you no longer need to backup the ‘Library’ folder - you only need ‘Assets’ and ‘ProjectSettings’ folders in that situation.

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QUOTE=“angrypenguin, post: 1913865, member: 79526”]Do people not read the terms of service/use for the places where they store there data? You should. You really, really should…[/QUOTE]
Im sure you have a point so enlighten us.

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Github will not allow you to commit any file over 100MB (and will warn you about any file over 50MB). They also consider repositories above 1GB to be beyond a ‘reasonable size’ and will ask you to reduce the size (and may delete your repository if you don’t).

Bitbucket’s TOS speaks for itself:

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Here we have a good and reliable backup software i.e CloudBacko Pro. You can download this software for free for 30 days and backup your project. Try this service at least one time, you will be definitely like this software.

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im using onedrive now i have about 230GB for free and it gets the job done so yea i stich with free… i also make local backups every once in a while with version control just incase i break some code or anything like that.