7 Ways To Back Up Your DJ Library & Music Database (Plus ONE mistake to avoid)

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7 Ways To Back Up Your DJ Library & Music Database (Plus ONE mistake to avoid)

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No pro DJ would neglect backing up their music, and you should make sure you do this too ✅ Here's how it's done (and the ONE mistake loads of people make)...
⚡ TIMESTAMPS ⚡
0:00 Intro
1:10 Why back up?
2:39 The ONE big mistake
5:30 The 321 Principle
7:12 Computer
8:04 Hard drives
9:32 USB & SD cards
11:15 NAS
13:41 Back up software
14:42 Cloud storage
16:54 My DJ Cloud
18:30 Rekordbox Cloud
19:36 DJ Community chat
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@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

⚡ TIMESTAMPS ⚡ 0:00 Intro 1:10 Why back up? 2:39 The ONE big mistake 5:30 The 321 Principle 7:12 Computer 8:04 Hard drives 9:32 USB & SD cards 11:15 NAS 13:41 Back up software 14:42 Cloud storage 16:54 My DJ Cloud 18:30 Rekordbox Cloud 19:36 DJ Community chat

@brookbell1132 8 ай бұрын

Great advice as always , thanks for all the support you give our community

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Always!

@Nogi-aka-DJNugz 8 ай бұрын

I put my library on Dropbox! Another good one Phil! ❤

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Nice one!

@kabes-us 8 ай бұрын

Never seen Phil without a Hawaiian shirt on! Love the video content! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Happy to help! Yeah, I do like as bright shirt normally, but it's cold here right now ❄️

@sashalummusic 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! It’s very helpful! 🎧

@digitaldjtips 6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@mystixa 8 ай бұрын

For those with vinyl / CD music collections with the smug comments or only applying the video to the new digital you acquire, learn from other DJ's stories. One thing thats nice about physical media is that you own it. The bad thing about it is that in owning it, if anything happens to that it, thats literally 'it. As in if you have a flood, or fire, or the media gets stolen there is no more music nothing is left. No end to the number of DJs Ive heard about the vinyl they had stolen and they wish they had the one particular white label that no one has. Especially if they're rare, back them up! If you never have to use the digital version, even better. Also 1000 years from now when your cyborg self has played the 1 record every day .. at some point that record will have worn out because they are a wearing thing. At that point you can use the physical object as a souvenir and still be enjoying the music.

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

I agree. Nowadays I have a 1-to-1 digital copy of all my physical record and CDs.

@dancetracks12345 8 ай бұрын

Tip: Don't perform incremental backups to save time, your not protecting yourself from corrupt files. I perform incremental backups all the time, but I know I will need to correct that in the future by buying larger USB drives. Ok, maybe you have 16K songs and to make things faster you backup only new files. But your older files could have corruption that you will not know about until you try and play them. It can and has happened to me. So 3-2-1 should be a backup of the entire collection every time you do it. My music folder is 200 GB so I only do this four times a year as my backup drive is a 1TB USB unit. If my file is corrupt I can at least go back into three folders to see if those copies are any good. This wasn't clear to me while watching the video so I wanted to point this out. Hope it helps.

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Always pays to err on the side of caution, although I would trust a reputable backup package for one of my backups incrementally, personally.

@SherwinBajao 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas!

@digitaldjtips 7 ай бұрын

Same to you!

@kenstacey7122 7 ай бұрын

Copy and paste, rsync, robocpoy, synctoy, snapshots, none of these are backups, they are copies. If an application crashes and zero lengths or corrupts a file, your copying round corrupt files. You won't know its corrupt until you go to use it, by which time you may have overwritten your backup copy with the same corruptions. Backup software allows you to go back in time, to recover a corrupt file to a time before it got corrupted. Sometime called Grandfather- father- son concept, an age old retention model. Similar to versioning. Downside is it’s another piece of software to learn to drive, and only the backup software can read the backup files. Also guards against ransomware, this malware can lurk un-detected for months then suddenly switch on and leave your entire laptop held to ransom, only thing you can do is rebuild and restore to a time before it happened (or pay of course!).

@digitaldjtips 7 ай бұрын

All true of course, although in practical terms, very very unlikely to ever be an issue with the level of sophistication we're talking about here in backing up a simple offline music database and a few MP3s. Hear you though!

@DjPatC 8 ай бұрын

I got mine in google drive the whole back up and 2 external ssd’s

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Sounds solid!

@MrJFunk 8 ай бұрын

Carbon Copy Cloner is great for copying your entire computer along with your music library.

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Yes, agreed

@djchelo7751 8 ай бұрын

Hey Phil! I have a question. What is the best way to move your Serato library from internal to an external ssd and only play from the external so I can make space on the MacBook internal drive?

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Serato has instruction on how to do this on its website, but I would question the need for this - far better to have a much smaller DJ music library in the first place in my opinion.

@djdulerep 8 ай бұрын

I have a really big problem with backup to SSD drive looks like lots of tracks got corrupted, I think that I never had that problem with old HD can you try to make video about that and how to fix it? Please ...

@digitaldjtips 7 ай бұрын

sorry, no idea why this would be happening

@matthiaszahler1356 8 ай бұрын

One question maybe one has an answer for. The USB Sticks i use to play on CDJ's with, can they be used as a backup also? For instance if my mac crashes or something. I got a new one, install rekordbox and than reimport the tracks and data from my CDJ USB Sticks?

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

This is obviously better than nothing but it is not ideal, as it is not a complete backup when done that way.

@ryondixon9234 6 ай бұрын

Please please does anyone know how to fix a rekordbox library back up that is freezing at around 40% and not completing. Its killing me and i dont know what to do. Thanks

@digitaldjtips 6 ай бұрын

No idea! Sorry, good luck

@mikkliish 3 ай бұрын

i had this issue once. it happened on Windows. All I had to do was turn off "Real-time protection" in the windows security settings while doing the backup. once the backup was completed, I just turned it back on (make sure to turn it back on after the backup!)

@djalter033 8 ай бұрын

Hi Phil, I have different Serato databases on different media (I use usbs for music and connect them to my laptop). Does Serato make a database on that specific media I plug in? And is there a way to combine those databases and put all the music on one place (so start all over at a right way)? Thanks and best, Arjen

@digitaldjtips 8 ай бұрын

Yes it does, and if you look in Serato's documentation they explain how to do this so you can, for instance, play from a USB on someone else's copy of Serato. But never seen an easy way of re-combining different databases.