What do you guys/girls use to back your precious projects?
Ctrl + C; Ctrl + V; 
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TimeMachine and 2TB external hard drive have saved my back many times.
Pretty straightforward but the renaming can be a pain in the neck.
This perplexes me greatly.
I used to do my backups by copying the folder and pasting it into a network share(lets say T:\Backups) since the folder âMyProjectâ already exists in "T:\Backups" you have to go in and rename the existing one then paste. I stopped doing that because itâs aggravating when you have multiple projects and multiple backup destinations.
You should really be using an automated system where you donât have to think about it or copy anything manually. (Like Time Machine on a Mac, but there are plenty of third-party utilities on any platform.)
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3 Backups + Local copies due to VCS⌠so essentially;
VCS Server Backup (MSSQL)
- On Secondary HDD on server
- External Drive
- Portable Drive
Weekly Server backup + Monthly source (/Unity) backup.
All workstations have a current copy too.
Simple naming convention; yyyy-mm-dd_extraInfo
In 3 years, this has saved me hundreds of hours.
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automated âWindows 7 Backupâ (you have to search a bit to find this in Windows 8 - Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows 7 File Recovery)
Dropbox, I should be using version control.
I used to use git for all of my non-unity projects.
Unity Asset Server is not in the pollâŚ
I back up stuff for my job in three ways:
- Unity Asset Server
- Dropbox
- Time Machine (External Drive)
I have set up a Subversion server on my local Ubuntu box at home. I just committ the changes I make on other computers. Itâs been working out pretty well. Iâm thinking of further backing up that repository to an external hard drive, just in case.
USB and Google Drive.
Asset server + Dropbox
I work directly out of Dropbox and have Time Machine backing it up from the local copy.
Subversion for me. Iâve been using Assembla for the last couple of years and liking it so far.
They do have free plans, so no excuses!
Git repository on bitbucket, or a similar setup with internal servers at work.
I always use WinRAR and zip the whole project up and then burn it on a disc and then unzip it when I need it. Or I use USB drive.
USB Ports wear out after years of unplugging and plugging usb stuff though so I stay with burning to a blank media disc
I never regret making an extra bakup of my projects because when your project is stuck and does not work at all then you have something as a bakup. Thatâs why I have like near 200 stacks of disks with project bakups over here from the last 3 years ! And that is how I succeeded !
Unity Asset Server.
The only sane way to backup a project and restore it on another PC without pink textures, broken or missing mono behavior links, without having the Asset values values reset.