mdbruffy opened this issue on Nov 12, 2021 ยท 23 posts
hornet3d posted Mon, 15 November 2021 at 10:19 PM
Rhia474 posted at 1:31 PM Sat, 13 November 2021 - #4430430
I have hard copy back ups on archival DVDs (so say good for 100 years) of all my Poser downloads and a cloud copy just to cover off robbery and fire at the home. All the purchased I have downloaded are stored in yearly folders with monthly sub folders and then finally I have a database that list the details including the date so i can easily find any given purchase. I can go back 20 years and still find purchases. In addition to this I have second and third copies of my working runtime folderWhat I find sad is that I can't find old POSER purchases anywhere. Like things one got at SmithMicro, such as James G2, Olivia, a ton of clothes etc. Those are gone because while the products themselves moved over there, as far as I know, the purchases didn't. And unless you have all those on an uncorruptable postable hard drive or up in the cloud on your third backup's backup... Ugh.
The downside is it takes and lot of time in keeping the backups up to date, although I have recently automated the cloud update. Keeping the database up to date means filling in all the new content as soon as I buy it when all I really want to do is play with my new toys. Not sure if this effort is really worth it as I could spend so much more time playing but with the cost of maybe losing some content along the way.
I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 - Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU . The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.