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  Vegas workflow & system config…

  Posted by Al Bergstein on March 9, 2011 at 2:19 am

  After restoring my entire environment after my motherboard fried, here’s what I’ve found. Let me know if this is reasonable.

  • OS, Vegas (etc) and Vegas Projects folder on C
  • Use W7 “Create a system image” under Control Panels Backup to regularly image the C drive to an external removeable hard disk. (Once a week/ or once a month). If your main drive fails, or your machine smokes, buy a new machine and reimage the C drive with this. Your machine will automatically reconfig the graphics drivers, etc. You might need to upload a few other drivers if the machine is different from what you had before, but this usually will work.
  • Use RAID 1 to mirror your external (or internal) disks for raw data etc.
  • Copy raw data from RAID to removeable hard disks on a project basis via external esata dock frequently. Take them to a vault somewhere

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  Always set a restore point before any kind of upgrade or install of third party crap.
  And/or backup/image before doing that.

  Works for me. How about you?

  Alf

  Danny Hays replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Danny Hays

  March 9, 2011 at 3:42 am

  I use that utility all the time now. If you didn’t know, click start, type backup, and select create system image backup. Make sure you create a repair DVD when it’s done. Boot with that repair DVD and point to that image folder.

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