Quick Tip: Complete REAPER Backup

In this Quick Tip tutorial Jon explains the how and why of backing up your whole REAPER folder to Dropbox using Automator.

If you know how to do the same on Windows, leave a comment below and the info will be added to the article.

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29 responses to “Quick Tip: Complete REAPER Backup”

  1. Philby Avatar
    Philby

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/25046/schedule-synctoy-to-run-automatically-with-task-scheduler-in-windows-7/

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    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Looks good is that how you would do it?

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  2. Charlie Avatar
    Charlie

    What about us using Windows?

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    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      I found this tip from dropbox
      http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/sync-other-folders

      but it doesn’t seem quite so simple.

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      1. Tee Avatar
        Tee

        Thanks! I found Dropbox Folder Sync and i use it between 2 of my windows machine. It is perfect. Thanks your blog!

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  3. Tod Avatar
    Tod

    Here’s a link to a blog entry (with a video) on how to do something similar under Windows 7 without any additional programs or tools. It uses the task scheduler which comes with Windows 7. http://bit.ly/reapback

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  4. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    A simple method Windows that uses no third-party software. It also only synchronizes changes so you’re backing up online an even smaller file set each time or nothing if no change have been made.

    1. Create a new text file in C:\ (or wherever you like).
    2. Rename the file from “New Text File.txt” to “ReaperBackup.bat”
    3. Right-click the text file and select “Edit”.
    4. Place this text inside:
    xcopy /D /S /Y “C:\Program Files\Reaper” “C:\backup”

    This will sync Reaper directory to C:\backup so you may need to modify both paths to suit. Change C:\backup to a path that is being synced with Dropbox. It’s up to you.
    Add a second line if you are running both 64- and 32- bit versions of Reaper.

    5. Save and close the file.
    6. Open Task Scheduler from the Start Menu.
    7. Create a new task and set it to run the newly created ReaperBackup.bat file. Set the schedule as desired but if the computer is not powered on it will not run.
    It’s also a good idea to run the bat file manually from command prompt for the first time to ensure it behave as expected.

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    1. Tod Avatar
      Tod

      @Matt – that might back up your reaper installation but it won’t back up your user specific settings data.

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      1. Matt Avatar
        Matt

        Of yeah! Sorry! I’ll have to edit that when I’m in front of a computer.

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  5. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    Sorry. I can’t seem to edit my earlier comment. If you replace “C:\Program Files\Reaper” with “%appdata%\REAPER” you will be good to go. That’s how I have mine set up.
    Maybe that will teach me not to post things by memory alone.

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    1. Matt Avatar
      Matt

      Aaargh! I give up.

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    2. Hew Avatar
      Hew

      On Windows 11 the folder should be:

      C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\REAPER

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