Ableton Forum

A solution to this I have worked out ....bear with me, its a bit painful...., is to consolidate every track so they are all the same length. Name the tracks so youll remember what they are and I personally bring everything up to 0 Db, so all my levels are preserved. Use the export all tracks option to a new folder on a different drive, Burn the Folder to A DVD so its backed up, and if your chosen effects on your tracks are important , either print them during the export (especially automation effects) or save your presets so you can use them for when you reopen the session. Do this for all your sessions.

Now you have to test it. Open a blank session. Create as many tracks as were in one of your sessions, and import all the wavs from one of your export folders. Voila The track is completely backed up so it can be opened really in any Daw that supports the Bitdepth and Resolution you exported the the wavs at. Without having to worry about having to line anything up as you consolidated everything to the same length. Test all your songs straight after each export, to make sure it worked

Next step for me is to format the audio drive. Basically to clean out the shit and just start again.
Reimport the wavs, and remake your sessions. It is tedious I know. For me however it creates a somewhat failsafe backup process.

Im interested in other peoples ways of backing up there tracks, so let me know

my way is to just use my windows home server to back up all my pcs and laptops, and, in addition, to use version control (in my case, the free visual svn server + tortoise svn on the clients) to commit all important versions to it.

simple, and elegant. but a different approach to yours of course. (in my sig you can watch pics of my home server, it's in an ikea box the box is the server. that way it's invisible and silent, a.k.a. woman-friendly )

we have 50 gigs online storage that is sync'd with both computers
that is where we keep our performance sets and our current W.I.P.s

for the mac book pro we have an external that i run back ups too
plus on the pc i have an extra drive to do back ups..
anything super important gets backed up on all file storage drives.

at some point when i move to a quad core i'm going turn my current pc into a file server and figure out a way to set it up the same exact way the online server works.
then i can have a synced ableton library between all machines (which would make life a tad easier) right now i have some folders that i keep all my vst presets shared but anything sample based would use to much of our precious online space

but money is a bit of a pain in the back side right now.. people don't want to give it to me as much as the used to.. hopefully that will change sooon maybe i should smile more.