Automatic project backup in DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve - Settings - Live save and project backups

Introduction

To restore past work that was accidentally changed, enable the automatic project backup function of DaVinci Resolve.

Automatic project backups is a DaVinci Resolve functionality that allows you to make automatic backups regularly for all your projects.

Video

A short video shows how to enable the automatic project backups.

How

Go to the top menu:

DaVinci Resolve >> Preferences >> User >> Project Save and Load >> Save Settings >> Project backups

Then set the following values:

• Perform backups every x minutes.
• Hourly backups for the past y hours.
• Daily backups for the past z days.

Finally, select a project backup location and click on "Save".

Minutes

Settings the value "10" minutes, will enable to perform 6 backups per hour. Each of those backups will be overwritten during the following hour.

Hours

Settings the value "3" hours, will enable to keep backups for the past three hours.

Days

Settings the value "4" days, will enable to keep backups for the past four days.