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Trevor Dimoff
Back Up Your Songs

What You Need to Protect: Action Steps:
1. Your Intellectual Property
Figure out what you need to be backing up and
Keep backup copies of your songs, create a schedule that you’ll keep.
video projects and audio projects.
Store your most important data in more than

2. Your Photos, Files and Projects one l
ocation.

You don’t want to try recreating your work, the
frustration isn’t worth it even if you could Don’t hesitate to pay to keep it safe, it’s worth it
reproduce it exactly. Backup your audio and if you ever need it.

video projects as you work on them, not just the
finished audio master or video render. Postscript

3. Your Time I got almost everything back, it’s good to have
a friend with computer superpowers. I’m out
In the event of a failure, you don’t want to waste a few megabytes of photos and some time. I’ve
time getting everything back on track. A paid, scheduled regular harddrive backups so I don’t
one stop solution is more efficient and effective do this to myself again!
than a collection of solutions you’ve cobbled

together. Your time is valuable, so why take Trevor Dimoff is a songwriter and songwriting
shortcuts that will cause trouble later? Don’t teacher at epicsongwriting.com where you can
cheap out if you can spend a little to save sign up to learn a simple and repeatable process
yourself time later. For example: buying a to write the lyrics and music to a song chorus.
portable harddrive is more efficient to reinstall
than using several USB drives you happen to www.epicsongwriting.com
have on hand. Just remember to backup
regularly.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Feel Like This

I don’t want you to go through what I did. Take
the steps to keep yourself and your work safe.
Just like purchasing home insurance or
renter’s insurance, you have to take proactive
steps before something goes wrong. Nobody
ever expects an accident or a natural disaster…

but they can still happen. Plan for the worst and
hope for the best... and stay safe!

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