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Been working with quite a few musicians in different countries and there is one problem we all seem to have had and that's backing up files. Time has come to look for a solution, in an ideal world we could have files backed up in different locations and also file share between members easily.

Open to suggestion's

In reply to lost1977: Cloud?

In reply to lost1977:

How many people are you talking about? Also how much data?

Simplest approach would be to share an account, problem with that is you dont know who made the last updates etc. Advantage is it would probably be free.
Dropbox/Box/Google drive are all options.
Set up an account and then share the user name/password (personally i would sync it to another personal storage account as well in case some muppet accidently deletes it).
Could probably be done free.
Beyond that you start getting into proper version control territory where the price goes up a lot.

In reply to dissonance:

yep would agree with this too!

if it's something big and very important, it might actually be worth looking at a paid service from someone like amazon

for broadcasting your end result... soundcloud?

In reply to dissonance:

Initial set up would probably be for about 10 people although we have almost 100 members. Each user would probably appreciate 1-2tb and are prepared for a set up of a professional standard if cost is affordable as the group is also now a record label.

In reply to lost1977:

At the moment we do use dropbox which works well for sharing colab work but if we could tie it in for our individual back up (most members back up to external drives but some including me have had drives die, so back up of back up is what's probably best)

In reply to lost1977:

Thats a pretty hefty group size and a lot of data and outside of what I could usefully comment on.
Goes outside the realm of pushing the limits of the free/cheap offerings and into professional stuff. Either using the professional offerings from those providers or alternatively getting a dedicated service set up (either on virtual machine or via amazon s3 etc.

In reply to rallymania:

Individually we tend to use soundcloud or band camp (soundcloud has horrible compression but massive amount of users) so this side of things is covered

In reply to dissonance:

S3 and glacier looks possible

In reply to lost1977:

although glacier is designed for more "static" projects i think check your bandwidth requirements as well as the amount you wish to store

In reply to lost1977:

Glacier is very cheap and great for archiving. I would imagine it is a nightmare trying to get your archives back and there is always a chance that the tapes used may fail to restore. Such services are ideal for firms that have to tick the box that says x years of data have been archived off site but the reality of needing to retrieve that data is very low.

To the OP. If you are wishing to share terrabytes of data between users, you are staring in the face of something that could cost quite a lot of money. Do you really need to do it and is there any value (money) to you all?

As for backups. You should be using some form of backup / imaging software to backup your data. Sounds like it would be pretty costly if you lost it all of a sudden. There are lots of decent freebies around if you have a look.

In reply to ByEek:

Sharing we regularly share files of 1gb, a lot the storage is backing up work and VSTs (software based synths and effects) we could minimise the VSTs storage with a single common folder to avoid duplication.