How to backup project?

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Hello

How do i actually save my project to a version 2 or test version which i can test on and then come back to original?

While i have my project open. can´t i just save it as complete different project?

Cheers

Hamid

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Duplicate the whole project folder using Finder or File Explorer or whatever the equivalent is on your system.

(You don’t technically need the Library folder, which is huge, so if sufficiently clever you can skip that while duplicating/backing up.)

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You can absolutely just duplicate the project folder. But if you really want to work the way professionals do, learn to use Git. Not only does it let you backup files before you start breaking things, you can keep those backups virtually forever (along with hundreds or thousands of other versions) all in one place, backed up to the cloud, without taking up tons of disk space (Git only copies changes and not entire files, so it’s much, much more space-conscientious).

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Is it a paid cloud service to store on git?

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Usually git providers have free tiers. Like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Microsoft Azure DevOps have. You need to research the solution you would be happy with.

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Like @ said, most of the major providers have free tiers, which has served me well enough for all my personal projects. GitHub and BitBucket are the two most popular, I think, but I hear GitLab is scooting up there, too.

The biggest limitation is repo size, which is – I believe – generally 2GB for free, private repos. I don’t think the limitation applies for public repos on GitHub. Generally this won’t be a problem unless you’re making changes to your big binary files like textures, sounds/music, and big-ass 3D models.

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Azure DevOps offers unlimited repo size with unlimited LFS size for free private or public (if you’re eligible for the free tier, which most personal users are).

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Dang! That’s a sweet deal. I’ll have to give it a look. Thanks for the heads up!