Sync Is Not Backup: Saving Your Podcast Files (and Your Sanity)

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Dave and Jim discuss essential strategies for storing, syncing, and backing up podcast files effectively.

Send us feedback/questions via Text In this episode of Ask the Podcast Coach, Dave and Jim dive deep into one of the least sexy—but most critical—parts of podcasting: how you store, sync, and back up your files without losing your mind (or your episodes). They talk through practical strategies for using local drives and cloud services like Dropbox, iCloud, iDrive, Backblaze, and more; the crucial difference between sync and backup; and how to design a file workflow that actually fits how you ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dave Jackson, Jim Collison

Topics covered

• podcast file storage
• file backup strategies
• cloud services
• local drives
• sync vs backup
• file workflow

Keywords

• podcast
• file storage
• backup
• sync
• cloud services
• Dropbox
• iCloud
• workflow

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dropbox, iCloud, iDrive, Backblaze

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