I've been writing and recording music for over ten years and have probably made over 150+ songs. I recently lost my SD card for my phone at the bowling alley. It had all my music on it. (Probably 35+ songs)
I've lost countless recordings to computer crashes too. It's just a hobby that's fun / therapeutic but it would be nice to listen to some of the songs. I have a handful on soundcloud and YouTube but that's it. Reverbnation and soundclick too.
How do you recommended backing up music files? Should I buy a couple gig sticks?
I haven't recorded in a few years but I'm thinking about starting up again from scratch. It's so frustrating constantly losing my music files.
External HD's are cheap, combined with free cloud storage (Dropbox/Google Drive/SkyDrive) should be sufficient.
This. I've been writing fiction since college, and I usually e-mail myself copies, plus have them on whatever my "main" hard drive is, plus a copy in the cloud (dropbox), and another copy on our external hard drive that we plan on taking with us in the event of the apartment burning down or whatever.
For music/text files it doesn't take up much space.
You need to backing things up online these days, SoundCloud, Dropbox, online website. Therefore you can access it from anywhere and everywhere as long as you've an internet connection.
