Joey 
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You're here now and that's what matters! Welcome!
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And as a systems administrator for well over a decade, I have absolutely no trust for computers, software, or storage media whatsoever.
The files for the collab were stored in a Dropbox folder that has versioning enabled, so every time I saved something, it would sync to Dropbox within a minute or two. If a file were to become corrupted, it'd be a matter of simply logging into dropbox and downloading previous versions until I found the latest good copy.
On top of that, the folder was also backed up to a Backblaze account, which also has versioning enabled (with one year retention), so that was acting as a secondary backup.
I built the collab in groups of about 25-30 submissions per group, and saved after each group was added. Once a group was completed, I would move the image files to that group to a folder named after that group. That way, if the PSD file became corrupted and I lost the two most recent groups, I wouldn't even have to spend time figuring out which characters were in those groups - I'd just go to the folders for those two groups, and all the submissions that were "lost" would be right there.
Luckily there weren't any issues this year, so I didn't have to resort to any of that,. bBut I have had issues in the past (especially the first two collabs, which were built using Photoshop CS6 instead of Photoshop CC), and my general distrust for anything that runs off electricity definitely saved my ass a few times with those collabs.
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You're here now and that's what matters! Welcome!
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And as a systems administrator for well over a decade, I have absolutely no trust for computers, software, or storage media whatsoever.
The files for the collab were stored in a Dropbox folder that has versioning enabled, so every time I saved something, it would sync to Dropbox within a minute or two. If a file were to become corrupted, it'd be a matter of simply logging into dropbox and downloading previous versions until I found the latest good copy.
On top of that, the folder was also backed up to a Backblaze account, which also has versioning enabled (with one year retention), so that was acting as a secondary backup.
I built the collab in groups of about 25-30 submissions per group, and saved after each group was added. Once a group was completed, I would move the image files to that group to a folder named after that group. That way, if the PSD file became corrupted and I lost the two most recent groups, I wouldn't even have to spend time figuring out which characters were in those groups - I'd just go to the folders for those two groups, and all the submissions that were "lost" would be right there.
Luckily there weren't any issues this year, so I didn't have to resort to any of that