How Often Do You Backup?

Once every three months.

When someone mentions it.

When I make any major changes to things.

I should do it when major change… but I don’t 🫤

So, from time to time…

When I make any changes or if it occurs to me that I haven't done a backup in a while even without changes. I always do pre and post OS update backups immediately before and after.

You know what people say about it?

Whoever laughs last has a backup 😜🤘

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humm.. Have You ever lost any rigs or settings due to OS updates?

Not yet that I am aware of. A couple years ago an OS update caused an error message. I documented it and contacted Kemper. It turned out to be just a glitch. That similar thing has happened once more on another subsequent OS update and I handled it myself. I backup religiously before any OS update. You can't backup too often. I used to apply every update as it was released but now I only apply major feature updates. I don't touch Beta releases, either. I did install the Beta for Liquid Profiling just to confirm it wasn't going to be a game changer for me since I am not a tweaker.

I also backup all my rigs periodically. That is handy because not only does it back them up with all my settings and effects but also with the names I have assigned to make more sense instead of the nonsense names the profile sellers use for copyright reasons.

I am a software packrat by nature. I have every OS and Rig Manager release on my PC since I bought my Kemper in March 2019.

before any updates

I do backups every few weeks on the profiler, and I do a RM backup every time I add new content there. I also back up my entire hard drive every few months

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I also back up my entire hard drive every few months

+1 on this. A recent Windows 10 update on my PC did not go as planned. Since it wasn't a drive issue I was able to migrate all my data off of the drive to a large USB drive before I did a Windows restore. That is now part of my ongoing routine.

I like living on the edge………what’s a backup?

Every time I change something on it.