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Restoring a project backup in the Project Browser
Project backups are only saved when changes have been made to a project.
IfDaVinci Resolve sits idle for any period of time, such as when your smart watch tells
you to go outside and walk around the block, no additional project backups are saved,
preventing DaVinci Resolve from overwriting useful backups with unnecessary ones.
Three fields let you specify how often to save a new project backup, 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
project 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 of 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.
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