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Tusk
The backup app that never forgets where your files went
Tusk is a Mac backup app for photographers and video editors with footage spread across many drives. Unlike cloning or sync tools, it tracks every file by checksum across all your destinations and can tell you what's on a drive sitting on your shelf. Plug in an SD card and it fans out to every drive and cloud at once. Free up your Mac once every backup holds a verified copy. Drive dies? One-click restore from the best copy. $49 lifetime at launch (later $79). 14-day free trial, no credit card.
I built it because keeping my own footage safe was incredibly tedious. After a year of shooting, I had six external drives and no idea where I could find any specific file. Worse, I could never be sure if a file was safely backed up or if it only existed in one place, meaning one corrupted drive could wipe out some irreproducible footage forever.
The existing tools are good at backup: cloning a drive, syncing a folder, and verifying the copy. But then they leave you alone. None of them answered the question "Where is this file?" once the drive was back on the shelf.
Tusk is built around that question. It backs up your project folders to external drives and the cloud, verifies every file (BLAKE3 checksums), and keeps a library of where every copy lives. It's local-first: your files, your storage, your control, with cloud as one destination rather than the whole plan. Open a project, and you see which files are safely backed up, which aren't, and which drive to grab. It watches your project folders, too, so new or updated files are automatically copied to your backup locations. Once everything is safely backed up, you can delete your local copies with one click to free up space on your Mac Tusk verifies every destination first and refuses if anything's missing.
Launch offer: First 100 licenses for $49 lifetime (later $79). You can try Tusk out for free for 14 days, no signup or credit card required.
Photographers and videographers have tested it over the past months and shaped much of what it is today. If you're a music producer, VFX artist, or anyone sitting on more data than you can keep in your head, I'd love to hear whether Tusk solves your problem.
I’d especially love feedback on:
Is the backup workflow intuitive?
Is there anything missing before you’d trust it with your data?
Plugged in a random drive from my shelf and it instantly knew exactly what was backed up where. Super handy for someone drowning in scattered footage across half a dozen SSDs.
Would love to see granular scheduling per drive tier, like hourly syncs to local SSDs but only weekly to offsite backups. Right now if you support that already I missed it, but being able to tune frequency and bandwidth caps per destination would help when you're juggling fast scratch drives and slower cold storage in the same workflow.
Plugging in an old drive and instantly seeing what was on it was genuinely satisfying. The checksum tracking gives real peace of mind for anyone juggling footage across multiple backups.
as a content creator that is regularly on the run, this is so cool. congrats on the launch niklas!!! can't wait to never worry about losing video footage due to premature deletion ever again.
one question: you said it keeps watching the project folder and sends the updates to the different backup locations. i often do not have my external drives plugged in. what happens then? similarly if I'm offline but have just added footage that should also be backed up to the cloud?
Wow this is a really cool idea!! 🤩💡 just a question: since Tusk “keeps a library of where every copy lives”, how does it deal with data privacy and sensitivity of users’ files?
About Tusk on Product Hunt
“The backup app that never forgets where your files went”
Tusk was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 22 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #29 on the daily leaderboard. Tusk is a Mac backup app for photographers and video editors with footage spread across many drives. Unlike cloning or sync tools, it tracks every file by checksum across all your destinations and can tell you what's on a drive sitting on your shelf. Plug in an SD card and it fans out to every drive and cloud at once. Free up your Mac once every backup holds a verified copy. Drive dies? One-click restore from the best copy. $49 lifetime at launch (later $79). 14-day free trial, no credit card.
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Niklas Fischer
Hey PH! I'm Niklas, solo founder of Tusk.
I built it because keeping my own footage safe was incredibly tedious. After a year of shooting, I had six external drives and no idea where I could find any specific file. Worse, I could never be sure if a file was safely backed up or if it only existed in one place, meaning one corrupted drive could wipe out some irreproducible footage forever.
The existing tools are good at backup: cloning a drive, syncing a folder, and verifying the copy. But then they leave you alone. None of them answered the question "Where is this file?" once the drive was back on the shelf.
Tusk is built around that question. It backs up your project folders to external drives and the cloud, verifies every file (BLAKE3 checksums), and keeps a library of where every copy lives. It's local-first: your files, your storage, your control, with cloud as one destination rather than the whole plan. Open a project, and you see which files are safely backed up, which aren't, and which drive to grab. It watches your project folders, too, so new or updated files are automatically copied to your backup locations. Once everything is safely backed up, you can delete your local copies with one click to free up space on your Mac Tusk verifies every destination first and refuses if anything's missing.
Launch offer: First 100 licenses for $49 lifetime (later $79). You can try Tusk out for free for 14 days, no signup or credit card required.
Photographers and videographers have tested it over the past months and shaped much of what it is today. If you're a music producer, VFX artist, or anyone sitting on more data than you can keep in your head, I'd love to hear whether Tusk solves your problem.
I’d especially love feedback on:
Is the backup workflow intuitive?
Is there anything missing before you’d trust it with your data?
How do you currently organize archived projects?