Question about traktor pro 2 and upgrading to lion

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Question about traktor pro 2 and upgrading to lion

I want to upgrade, and install lion. How to I back up my traktor pro 2 stuff. Thx in advance my people.

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Easiest method is simply to backup your hard disk with carbon copy cloner

  • Run installer upgrade to Lion (worked perfectly for me)

  • Done

If you want to fresh install and keep your old stuff…

  • Backup using Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner.

  • Run Lion Installer (with erase and install)

  • Boot

  • Use migration assistant to include applications and user profile from your old disk.

  • Done

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That’s what I did.

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…and thats what i did.

FWIW Carbon Copy failed me 3 times. I know people that swear by it so im not bashing it but, I have never heard anyone complain about Time Machine.
It just works.

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Carbon Copy hasn’t failed me yet. I guess I’m lucky

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I only care about my traktor stuff, so I want to do a fresh install. Do I just back the traktor folder up to an external drive.

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Where are you backing up to?
You have to backup the music collection. Do you use iTunes or just have a folder?

If you are using iTunes and Traktor then doing a Time Machine backup will be flawless and easier, then you can get rid of anything you dont want.

But, if you just want to backup Traktor. You need to back up the Native Instruments folder in Documents and the Native Instruments folder in Applications.

Also back up any externally saved tsi as they may not be in your settings folder.

Make sure that if you have rename your hard drive that you name it exactly as it is now or Traktor will not be able to find your music and you will have to relocate it.

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I have my music on a external drive, I want to back up all my traktor settings and music crates, play list

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I don’t keep music on my Mac, I keep all my music on a external drive. Should I just back up the whole traktor folder to an external drive. Then after I do a fresh install of lion, just drag the folder back to my MacBook pro?

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I just upgraded last night.

I made sure I had an up-to-date backup on Time Machine and installed Lion.

Everything continues to work fine, including Traktor and my collection/tags/cues/metadata.

Didn’t do a clean install because I didn’t want to have to go through the hassle of installing everything again.

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I’ve had Time Machine fail repeatedly, and I kind of think it’s a horribly designed system. I still use it, but mostly only as a short-term thing. It does not work at all if you’re using File Vault for any user, and there are other settings that will screw up the backup. Plus, I hate how it notifies you that the drive’s full and deletes your oldest backups so late. I’ve resorted to using dd to back up my time machine drives into sparse bundle disk images on my archive drive…and just wiping them periodically and starting over…which is annoying as shit, because then you can’t use migration assistant or restore to bring it back to where it was before the last time you did that. At least, not easily.

I also hate the concept. I don’t care what a folder looked like on a specific day. I want to see every version of every file that’s ever been in a folder…not all the ways a folder looked. Fuck that. It’s useless.

I think Time Machine is complete crap if it’s your only backup. The only way I’d use it alone would be on like an 8TB RAID5 that’s mirrored off site, just so it’d be a long time 'till I had to worry about it deleting my backups without really warning me. I really don’t trust it.

Fortunately, it’s a front end for rsync, so it only deletes the old backups that aren’t still on your system, but wait…those are more likely to be the ones you freaking need.

I don’t use CCC either, but that’s because AFAIK, it’s just a front end for dd. I used to use something else that was just a front end for rsync.

Now, I use Time Machine because “why not,” plus dd and rsync to keep a live, bootable backup…and a script that backs up my home folder to my archive, which is basically everything that’s been in my home folder since before I switched to Apple in 2006.

But I’m pretty sure my time machine drive would be the one I didn’t care about getting destroyed…because it has to be…because it eats itself for no god damned reason.