Backing up your data.

Racn

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Purchased My Book and set it for continuous back up, should this be all I need for backing up my Tane data? (default setting in there too was 5 copies of each).

Thanks
 
The backup setting in Trainz is within your UserData folder only and only backs up older versions of assets that have been modified. You need to manually or otherwise set a backup program to mirror that folder onto your new drive.
 
You may want o monitor the backup program as well. I've run into situations, not my own, where the auto-backup went through the motions but backed up nothing!
 
What's cool about T:ANE (or TS12, for that matter) is that an incredibly simple backup regime may be achieved by simply copying your entire T:ANE or TS12 installation folders over to another drive. (You don't have to worry about system registry issues).
If you do this regularly and copy properly-working versions to a safe backup hard drive location elsewhere, then if something bad happens to your primary installation rendering it inaccessible or too badly corrupted to work properly, you simply delete that installation and copy back (into the same location as the original) your backup version.
Yeah, sure, it takes up precious time and a lot of hard drive space to do this (but it can be initiated and left to occur in the background while you do other stuff) but most of us now have multi-terabyte drives that are underutilised otherwise.
Even laptop users can easily attach a USB 3.x external drive for this purpose.
The only 'gotchas!' that might trip this method up is to fail to also back up - and reinstate in the correct location(s) - files like the userdata-redirect-map.txt in your Appdata folder on your boot drive and assets.tdx etc. in your TANE folder that prevailed at the time of your 'snapshot of working version' copy.
 
If you have to spend time tending to your backups like a garden then you're doing it wrong. Set up properly they're supposed to be out of sight, out of mind and peace of mind.

Windows 7 has a nice built in feature to do this, but I've also used Macrium Reflect for more advanced stuff.
 
If you have to spend time tending to your backups like a garden then you're doing it wrong. Set up properly they're supposed to be out of sight, out of mind and peace of mind.

Windows 7 has a nice built in feature to do this, but I've also used Macrium Reflect for more advanced stuff.

Try FastCopy. Simply setup the folders. Do a full backup once to your backup drive. Every time the program is run afterwards, it will perform a differential backup that you can change to a full if you want. Works like a charm and it's free.

http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en
 
Thank you very much gentlemen:
Perhaps My Book was overkill for what I needed to do, but from what I can see the software works pretty well. Any files that change, be it music, movies etc., is backed up onto My Book within a minute. Hopefully if Tane crashes after a few hours of building My Book will have the changes backed up so I may only loose a few minutes of building time.
 
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