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Hi guys

Does anyone know if there is an automated way to regularly back up the VDJ database file i.e schedule it to backup once a week for example? (I'musing Win7 with VDJ8)

Many thanks
 
Posted Tue 15 Sep 15 @ 9:55 pm
If I remember right blckjck offered a fine solution a couple of months ago.

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If I am infering from your original post correctly, all of your music is on your internal drive.
How I handled my situation might interest you.
I have a 1TB drive in my laptop. It is divided into two partitions (technically there are a couple of hidden windows partitions as well). 200G is the main OS install on drive C, the rest of the space is on drive D. Drive D is where I have my iTunes library kept. I use iTunes to manage all of my music, videos, books, apps. When I mirror that drive to a USB or network drive, almost everything I need for VDJ is backed up. In fact, if I had to buy a laptop on the way to a gig, I could get by as is after install VDJ fresh.
Now, I did do a little more advance stuff with my backup. My VDJ folder is also mirrored to the back up drive, as it my iTunes folder that contains it's database (This is not in the library location if you specify a different location). The VDJ folder and the iTunes library are also backed up to Droopbox. I do this so, if the above new laptop scenario happens, I can get my settings, playlists, and other files quickly.
This is all also backed up to a NAS drive at my house.
My backup PC only has a 320G drive. My VDJ, iTunes database, and CU stuff gets coppied there from the USB drive. I use the USB drive with the backup for my media.
At night, after any songs are added, sorted, deleted, or playlists made, etc. I click two shortcuts for batch files. The batch files mirror all of this while I wander off to bed.
If your interested, I can go into more detail for you. My post is long enough now not to keep going if your not. ;)
The biggest gain to using the batch files is the command being called.
It allows mirroring of the folders without copying things that are already present and have not changed.
robocopy is the PC based command, and it is provided by Microsoft
rsync is the Apple OS command




Mind you that's backing up everything.
I've been meaning to have a think about it when I get a little time.
 
Thanks for the info Ron - I will have a proper read later and see if this can help out although I must say seeing as how important the VDJ database is It would be an Idea for VDJ to add something into the options to allow it to be backed up automatically.
 
This has been asked for multiple times but we're getting Spotify integration instead.
 
soulboy1970 wrote :
.... although I must say seeing as how important the VDJ database is It would be an Idea for VDJ to add something into the options to allow it to be backed up automatically.


We have a special topic that it is being read by the dev team for that kind of requests:
http://www.virtualdj.com/forums/18/Wishes_and_new_features.html
for it is actually no bad idea to have a kind of scheduled backup.
Feel free to drop your suggestion there if you wish.
 
Thanks Rob
 


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