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To enable Project Backups:
1 Choose DaVinci Resolve > Preferences, and open the Project Save and Load panel.
2 Turn on the Project Backups checkbox.
3 Choose the settings that determine how many Project Backups will be maintained.
Project Backups are saved on a first in, first out basis. Three fields let you specify how
often to save new backups and how many backups to maintain, while the fourth lets
you choose where the backups will be saved.
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Perform backups every X minutes: The first field specifies how often to save a new
backup within the last hour you’ve worked. By default, a new backup is saved every
10 minutes, resulting in six backups within the last hour. Once an hour of working
has passed, an hourly backup is saved and the per-minute backups begin to be
discarded on a “first in, first out” basis.” By default, this means that you’ll only ever
have six backups at a time that represent the last hour’s worth of work.
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Hourly backups for the past X hours: The second field specifies how many hourly
backups you want to save. By default, 8 hourly backups will be saved for the current
day you’re working, which assumes you’re working an eight hour day (wouldn’t that
be nice). Past that number, hourly backups will begin to be discarded on a “first in,
first out” basis.
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Daily backups for the past X days: The third field specifies for how many days
you want to save backups. The very last project backup saved on any given day is
preserved as the daily backup for that day, and by default daily backups are only
saved for five days (these are not necessarily consecutive if you take some days off
from editing for part of the week). Past that number, daily backups will begin to be
discarded on a “first in, first out” basis. If you’re working on a project over a longer
stretch of time, you can always raise this number.
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Project backup location: Click the Browse button to choose a location for these
project backups to be saved. By default they’re saved to a “ProjectBackup” directory
on your scratch disk, although you could change this to a volume that better fits into
your data backup methodology.
4 Click Save to confirm your change, and then close the Preferences window.
NOTE: When using this feature, the very first backup that’s saved for a given day may
be a bit slow, but all subsequent backups should be unnoticeable.
Once one or more Project Backups have been saved, you can access them in the
Project Browser.
To open a Project Backup that’s been saved:
1 Open the Project Manager.
2 Right-click a project, and choose Project Backups from the contextual menu.
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