Three Strategies for Backing Up Your DaVinci Resolve Projects, Stills and Databases

Backing Up To The Future

Here’s a common plea for assistance you’ve seen on Resolve forums every couple of months: “I’ve lost my database and all its project files. PLEASE HELP! My deadline is in 5 hours!”.

If you’re that person desperately searching for a lost database or project, what you really need is a trip back in time with Doc Brown and his Delorean -giving you time to back up your projects and data.

Understand that finding yourself in this situation isn’t a matter bad luck – just a matter of bad timing. The fact is: This WILL happen to each of us. Period. Drives fail. Databases get corrupted. The only time this becomes a problem is if you don’t properly plan for it.

What many DaVinci Resolve colorists and admins don’t realize is that it has a few different options to aid you in backing up your project. Spend one hour today – and a few minutes weekly – and you can save your future self / reputation / career / business a whole lot of pain!

In this article, I’m going to show you 3 useful and easy methods to protect your work from hard drive catastrophe.

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• March 13, 2013 at 1:50 pm #33912
  
  Dan Moran

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  This is the discussion thread for the Insight: Three Strategies for Backing Up Your DaVinci Resolve Projects, Stills and Databases

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  CASSIANO ZOBOLI

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  April 6, 2013 at 5:59 pm

  I can’t figure why my backup” option on DataBase Manager window is not enabled!
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  CASSIANO ZOBOLI

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  April 6, 2013 at 6:01 pm

  I just “connected” to the existing DataBase and Resolve created another Database named “resolve”and Backup option became highlighted. But I’m not sure if I did it right!
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  Patrick Inhofer

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  April 7, 2013 at 10:24 pm

  Check to see if you’re using a ‘disk’ database. If the ‘Host’ column is a directory structure instead of an IP address, you’re using a disk database and the database is being saved in your Documents folder. Resolve doesn’t have a backup option for disk databases since they can be backed up by simply dragging and dropping.

  Only the PostGres Databases have the backup option.

  Is that making sense?
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  Pablo Perugorria

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  April 8, 2013 at 2:25 pm

  You get into a serious subject with a fun attitude. This worth a lot. You add fun to it. well done!
  just this sentence worth following you guys “If you’re that person desperately searching for a lost database or project, what you really
  need is a trip back in time with Doc Brown and his Delorean -giving you time to back up your projects and data.”
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  Jeff Hafer

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  June 24, 2018 at 9:44 am

  This one is missing images too. 😮
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