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Ray - TennPhoto
Ray - TennPhoto
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January 12, 2025
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Do Automated Premier Pro Project Back-up options exist in Creative Cloud?

  • January 12, 2025
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I recently had a catastrophic failure in my Windows 10 machine - I lost an entire 6 months of work on 3 projects - Every exported video, every sequence, every timeline - gone into nothingness  - It would be nice if there were a way to synch projects with Creative Cloud to save a copy automatically to the cloud when a "file save" is done locally.  Save one to the project directory and automatically save one to the cloud - is this something that exists and I do not know about or is it something that Adobe should be providing as part of the creative cloud service?  I saw an auto save feature for team projects, but nothing for a one man show freelancer like me!

 

If I am missing something, chastise me, but point me in the right direction!
If I am not wrong, then please tell Adobe to add this as a feature to the Creative Cloud as it would have saved my hide and not cause me to lose some valuable work, time and opportunities due to a machine failure!

BTW - I was able to talk my wife into allowing me toi build a new machine to help keep the failures to a minimum!  Now I have a new machine and a new platform to set up with automated back-up systems to keep me from losing my work in the future!

 

One more step of reduindancy would be nice to have with the Adobe Creative Cloud!

    Correct answer R Neil Haugen

    We used to be able to save projects to the CC Cloud. But they discontinued that. It would be an "Idea" post at this time for a feature request.

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    MyerPj
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    MyerPjCommunity Expert
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    January 12, 2025

    As @JonesVid mentioned, I use EaseUs Backup and make a copy of my system drive every month or so, I always clean up my machine first, as I have a 'Tester' drive and it's only 256Gb, so I want backup to install there. Thus why I've started leaving only program files on c:. I make a backup and then clone it to Tester, and it's been working very well. I'm only a computer programer, and it's only taken my a year or two to figure out what it is doing, so I don't need to spend much time in it's, (is it Mac like?) interface. The backup part works well, probably only takes 20min to back and then the same to restore.

    John T Smith
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    John T SmithCommunity Expert
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    January 12, 2025

    I use a Sata docking station and SEVERAL 'bare' drives for backup of my desktop computer
    There are many external drive devices, this is the one I use
    https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-External-docking-station-drives/dp/B00U8KSLA8/

     

    Hardware crashes or virus infections or simple software problems happen, so you should buy AND USE software to make a full backup of your hard drive to an external USB hard drive... plus, making step-by-step backups during a new setup or major program addition makes it easy to go back a step if something doesn't work... I have had to do this once when a program install didn't work properly (a different program, not Adobe) and I had to do a restore due to my drive being SO messed up that I couldn't even uninstall the bad program
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    This backup and then restore is, of course, only to the same computer with a new drive (or the same drive as long as you don't mind writing over everything) since doing a restore to a new computer requires extra steps due to Windows and many programs having activation information that is keyed to your hardware (which is why Windows will force you to RE-Activate if you change very much hardware)
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    The product I bought and use is at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
    Note that I get NO benefit if you buy the program, I only use it and like what it does
    Version 3+ allows restoring to a larger drive and expanding the partition to fit
    .
    Image runs off of a bootable CD or USB Flash Drive via Linux (the Zip you download includes a program to make the CD or USB, the program uses less than 1Gig) and it reads EVERYTHING on the drive, even the hidden registration information, so everything is restored when needed... and you may not only restore the image over a messed up install, you may restore to a brand new drive in case of a hardware crash, and not have to re-install anything

     

    My copies and backups are done manually, on my schedule, since I have never bought an automatic copy program

      Averdahl
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      AverdahlCommunity Expert
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      January 12, 2025

      This, iow doing it manually is the best way to do it. It can bite back very hard if one only rely on automatic backup the day you need to restore it only to find that the automatic backup silently stopped working for some reason a month or two ago. 

       

      It´s also vital to check regularly that one actually can restore the backup or parts of it to ensure that it fully works. Getting familiar with that process is vital, to ensure that one can restore and to actually know what to do and how to do it when disaster strikes. There are many cases were the backups had been made correctly but the restore process failed for some reason. It will easily terminate a company if it fails. 

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      My copies and backups are done manually, on my schedule, since I have never bought an automatic copy program


      By @John T Smith

       

        MyerPj
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        MyerPjCommunity Expert
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        January 12, 2025

        Always backup your files to different folder and drives. A usb drive with an on/off switch would be most welcome for backups. That way, if everything was attacked you would still have the 'off' usb with backups.

          R Neil Haugen
          R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
          Legend
          January 12, 2025

          We used to be able to save projects to the CC Cloud. But they discontinued that. It would be an "Idea" post at this time for a feature request.

          Everyone's mileage always varies ...
            Ann Bens
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            Ann BensCommunity Expert
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            January 12, 2025

            @R Neil Haugen 

            I still have that option. Dont know why some users dont.

            Sync Settings have been discontinued.

             

            JonesVid
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            JonesVidCommunity Expert
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            January 12, 2025

            My option for Auto Save in Creative Cloud is also 'greyed out'.

            Looking at what has been done to remove ability to use your Creative Cloud 100GB as a File store I doubt if Adobe will re-introduce anything like this again ?.

            All the announcements about this pointed us to other options like Microsoft One Drive, iCloud or Dropbox etc

            For back ups a good fast external harddrive with USB-C interface is best.

            I also take System Drive full image fromm time to time to avoid a complete Windows re-build.

            A multi disk system is also best to keep files separate.

            In fact I was also looking the other day at some third party software to help auto back ups.

            There are several about such as EaseUS, Aoemi Back Upper etc.

            They all seem to have gone to yearly licence fee but won't break the bank.

            For peace of mind have two backups !!

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