Rekordbox, creating a backup

   

As Pioneer Rekordbox is being used more and more, I cannot tell people enough how to make a backup of your precious work. In Rekordbox it's rather easy to create a backup of your database with a few simple steps.

I would recommend everybody to make such a backup and store it after you did some work in Rekordbox (creating playlists, adding Cue/Loop points etc). This is the only way to get your hard work safe if something bad would happen to you computer or hard drive.

A hard-disk will alwyas crash at some point in time, the bad thing is that you never know when EOL of it has come.

• Go to : File > Library > Backup Library
  
  
• You'll be promted with a few messages :
  
  
  1. This may require a long time > hit ok (you have no other option)
     
     
  2. Do you want to backup music files aswell > hit Yes/No
     I never include the music files, I use a tool to backup my folder with files manually
  3. Browse for a folder to store the zipped backup
     Create a folder in your Documents labeled : Rekordbox Backups and place all the files there. Over time you will make multiple backups so it's easy to delete the old ones.
     
     

Be aware that the backup will take a decent amount of time (depanding on your computer and size of music collection), even without the music files.

My backup if around 6000 tracks (they all have album art, a lot of them have cue info) is around 700MB wihtout the music files (that would add another 60GB )