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Backup? What Backup?

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Celebrating 10 years of fun and sessions, we finally released 3 albums on 7th June - Woohoo! (check out the trailer here ). We nearly didn't make it... but more on the sparks flying off the power supply later!  Firstly though, 3 albums seemed like a huge task to complete on occasional evenings,  so I probably need to find a few facts to understand the scale... ~30 larger recording sessions over 10 years, ~600 hours recording sessions 380GB/~620 hours of multitrack WAVs (320GB via cubase projects and 60GB via Logic) 2,158 Project files: 1,268 Cubase | 781 Reason | 109 Logic (distinct count excluding versions will be lower of course, but there's no way I'm figuring that out!) ~500 recorded tunes - normal recording time was ~20 mins per tune, so total raw mixdown would be over 200hrs In early 2017, we had 109 tunes on the potential albums By April 2017, only managed to cut to 87 tracks over 6 hours. Based on status and duration, I estimated it would take 2