I have two tracking computers (pc and Mac) and I want to be able to retrieve my recordings between the two recording computers. Is google drive the best way to do this ?
There’s a free version of Dropbox. Works great!
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I don’t use one specifically for music, but for work I use dropbox because it works well between Mac OS and windows, plus it integrates quite well with iOS. You could try the free version and see if it suits you, but for big projects the paid one would possibly be more useful.
Google drive always felt a bit clunky for me, as did Onedrive and Box, and iCloud seems too Apple specific. I have adobe cloud storage for photo / video / design but it doesn’t play well outside their apps.
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I know I’m going to have to pay mainly because I like doing 24 bit / 96k recordings and I know that will eat up storage. I’ll give Dropbox a shot.
Tracking an SP-1200 through class A preamps at 24 bit / 96k mastering converters. I swear there was a bad gear meme for this.
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I use https://www.sync.com/
I paid for a lifetime subscription to koofr cloud storage. https://koofr.eu/
Its one of the lesser-known ones, but having 1TB for life was very compelling. I mostly use it to back-up old photos and audio recordings. Its not the fastest of the services, but speeds are reasonable I’ve had little issue with it.
I figure worst case the company goes under at some point and I have to move my local copy somewhere else. But its almost at the point where I’ve broken even vs a yearly plan with a different service.
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If you really want to be independent, you could host your own file server? There are initial costs involved of course, but then you’d be free from any subscription traps and could never lose access to your stuff.
If its just fileshare for tracked recordings, you probably wouldnt even need a lot of diskspace, as you could rotate stuff out (say, with a 3-6 month rotation)
Are the two computers on the same LAN? Are in two separate locations?
Both computers are in the same wireless network but physically rooms apart from each other. One is in the home office while the other is in the living room in the other side of the house.
It’s free, works on pretty much every OS and does not leak any of your private data. It does not store your data in a cloud but instead, it will synchronize your files between two or more devices.
So, far a real backup, I suggest storing the files on a separate hard drive every now and then.
PS: It can sync via the Internet without any special configuration through relay servers but if your computers are in the same private network, the synchronization will happen there as well and it will of course be very quick.
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