Backup syncing software alternatives to Google Drive?

Croftyness · Feb 2018

I've been using google drive recently. But my normal maps and reference images display on my pixel phone...

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2018

Search is your friend.

Eric Chadwick · Feb 2018

Asset tracking and version control for a small art-side team

Backing up data, easier than ever

File management

Etc.
All found just using "backup" in the search bar.

Croftyness · Feb 2018

Ah yes thanks, I tend to forget. Appreciate the links.

kanga · Feb 2018

If you just want to copy work files on another disk then https://www.freefilesync.org/
It does more then copy, it sees what is new and updates it on the target drive. No muss no fuss.

Nuna · Feb 2018

woah thanks these are cool.

CreativeSheep · Feb 2018

What are you looking for ?

almighty_gir · Mar 2018

I rent a 300gb server, and use perforce to back up important working files/projects.

Shrike · Mar 2018

from the normal clouds, Sync.com seemed to have the best feature set with a good price after my research and very happy with it so far

SnowInChina · Mar 2018

why not a local backupserver ?
they don't cost too much and are easy to set up (at least synology ones)

the cheaper ones start at a reasonable price
https://www.amazon.de/Synology-DS218J-2-Bay-Desktop-NAS-Gehäuse/dp/B076S8NSCD/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1522065286&sr=1-1&keywords=synology

ZacD · Mar 2018

Always use an offsite backup as well. You could compress it, or only copy over completed projects without the project files, and use free space on Google Drive or Dropbox.

Axi5 · Mar 2018

And test your backups!

Croftyness · Mar 2018

These are all really cool ideas. I managed to untick an option in Google Drive that stops Drive images (like references and normal maps) showing up on my phone. Since then, I put my live projects on a 100Gb Google Drive which is super cheap, keeping hard copies of older projects on an external.

Amaury · Mar 2018

How do you manage to sync the same folder on 2 different PCs with the new google drive ?
I chose to sync my project folders that are on my external hard drive, did this at my workplace, when I installed it at home and set it up to sync the same folder it uploads the same stuff twice.

Don't know if I make myself clear.

m4dcow · Mar 2018

Amaury said:

How do you manage to sync the same folder on 2 different PCs with the new google drive ?
I chose to sync my project folders that are on my external hard drive, did this at my workplace, when I installed it at home and set it up to sync the same folder it uploads the same stuff twice.

Don't know if I make myself clear.

I don't know specifically about google drive, but it probably sees the folder you are trying to sync as new files. So you should have 1 computer sync with google drive first, and then sync an empty folder on the other computer by downloading stuff from google drive and then it should be in sync with any changes.

Backup syncing software alternatives to Google Drive?

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