hey guys, first off, do yourselves a favour and back up your work! now that that's out of the way, i thought i'd share a super-simple set up i devised to save my LSDJ work to the cloud:
1) make a folder for my sav's in my Google Drive account. include a SAV that corresponds to the session that BGB (or other emulator) will typically save to.
2) install Google Drive for PC/Mac (linuxheads have access to a couple of solutions here). this will create a Google Drive folder on the local machine with synced copies of my Google Drive files. locate the folder where the synced SAV's are.
3) in BGB.INI, set the SAV location to that folder. (setting the SAV path this way is preferable to setting it in BGB's Options dialog, as you may risk overwriting the SAV in the cloud with an older local copy once you close BGB).
4) Open BGB. Every time the emulator is closed, the SAV will get written to the googledrive folder and will sync automatically to the cloud! Easy peasy.
(i'm sure this setup could be adapted to different platforms / emulators / cloud services / workflows / etc.)
I've found some nice benefits to this setup:
- When you finish your BGB session and close the emulator, the newly-created SAV file gets synced to the cloud automatically in a matter of seconds. this means that you can hop over to another computer and continue your work. This is awesome for me because i don't have to worry about keeping things up to date across my home computer, my laptop, and my work computer.
- depending on the cloud service you use, you have automatic version control, which allows you to revert to older versions of your SAVs, as well as gives you a way out if you overwrite your SAV unfavourably. Google Drive keeps all revisions for 30 days before autodeleting them, but you can select specific revisions to remain indefinitely (at the cost of taking up more space).
- you don't have to do any manual fiddling around with SAV files. as far as i'm concerned, i just need to worry about moving the current SAV onto my cart, or moving the SAV from my cart to the cloud. as your work grows you can always organize your savs/lsdsngs in another folder.
- the most important takeaway is that you no longer have any excuse for losing your song data via accidental deletions or absent-minded overwrites.
I'm interested to see what solutions others might have come up with! I think it would be really cool to have a diff-like tool to visually compare revisions somehow.
EDIT: making steps moar bettar
Last edited by bryface (Apr 3, 2013 6:13 am)