Setting the BACKUP rate

Jonathan Neal wrote on 7/12/2006, 7:21 PM

Hey everybody,

I was wondering if there was a way to set the rate at which Vegas makes a backup of your current project.

I ask because I was working on a project yesterday and today, both days, all day, and when I was finally done, the system crashed during my save. The veg file was corrupted, and when I opened it in notepad to see if I could, somehow, salvage it, I saw that it was filled with nothing but NUL remarks. The video was part four in a four part series missed it's target date, of which there will not be a second. Sad times, but I remained calm, because there is nothing I can do now. Series over, like many T.V shows, unresolved.

So, uh, how can I set the backup rate to "every 30 seconds"? :)

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/12/2006, 7:40 PM

30 seconds is probably very excessive. It would trip you up when the mouse stopped moving for a few moments every time the autosave started.

Look for a .veg.bak file of the same name as your project. That may have a relatively recent copy.

farss wrote on 7/12/2006, 10:07 PM

Also I never rely on the autobackup as it's backing up your mistakes as well. So I regularly increment the project name e.g. MyProject-01, MyProject-02 etc.
I've now also got into the habit of jumping to the next mod 10 number if there's a major change.

Bob.

Jonathan Neal wrote on 7/13/2006, 12:25 AM

Does anyone know how to set any of the actual backup settings though? Can they be configured in even the slightest way?

Steve Mann wrote on 7/13/2006, 1:17 AM

I use the "emergency" backup (a very poor name for a good tool) feature in Excalibur. I just click on that icon whenever I've reached a significant point in my edit and I have a time-stamped veg file.

Steve M.