Backup strategies for photographers
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Ankur003
UltraWideLife.com
I think you have to buy the activation key for using Pro version...
YS can confirm...
Yogesh Sarkar
Administrator
I believe you have to pay for the pro version, I am using the standard one. I haven't yet checked out the comparison, but I will do that and let you know.
iamsomnath
Where is the remote?
Well well well , Thom Hogan has finally realised that when it comes to archiving you just can't rely upon cloud ; I am archiving offline forever 
"The Internet itself is getting scary. Zero Day exploits are getting published (witness XARA) before companies respond to them (and Apple, why the hell didn’t you respond during the six months you’ve known about it?). Thus, I actually want to take my main work system completely off line now. Just get it fully stable with my primary apps and disconnect it, then use a dedicated laptop for email, Web browsing, and site updating." ... from Thom's latest article
"The Internet itself is getting scary. Zero Day exploits are getting published (witness XARA) before companies respond to them (and Apple, why the hell didn’t you respond during the six months you’ve known about it?). Thus, I actually want to take my main work system completely off line now. Just get it fully stable with my primary apps and disconnect it, then use a dedicated laptop for email, Web browsing, and site updating." ... from Thom's latest article
amitw79
Super User
I need suggestions regarding my backup strategy.
I have got following drives which I want to put to use.
My main PC has OS installed on 256GB SSD and has additonal 2TB 7200RPM disk.
I intend to make use of regular but incremental/differential backup from PC on 2TB portable HDD and then mirror it to WD 4TB.
Now I am not quite sure how to make better use of 1TB portable HDD. Any suggestion/feedback from the group?
I am getting Lightroom CC subscription and would also need suggestion on how to better manage LR catalog in this setup I have.
I would be using Amazon Drive for cloud storage of RAW/JPEG images.
I have got following drives which I want to put to use.
- Seagate USB 3.0 1TB portable HDD
- Seagate USB3.0 2TB portable HDD
- WD Mybook 4TB Desktop HDD
My main PC has OS installed on 256GB SSD and has additonal 2TB 7200RPM disk.
I intend to make use of regular but incremental/differential backup from PC on 2TB portable HDD and then mirror it to WD 4TB.
Now I am not quite sure how to make better use of 1TB portable HDD. Any suggestion/feedback from the group?
I am getting Lightroom CC subscription and would also need suggestion on how to better manage LR catalog in this setup I have.
I would be using Amazon Drive for cloud storage of RAW/JPEG images.
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Yogesh Sarkar
Administrator
How much data do you have?
Ankur003
UltraWideLife.com
Amit bhai, Your backup strategy depends on your data volume and your data loss tolerance.
I will tell you my photo management strategy.
I have a laptop with 512 GB SSD, two external USB 3.0 HDDs of 2 TB each.
My current data is only 1.2TB. I backup only RAW+JPG photos/documents and negligible volume of videos.
** LR Catalog **
My LR catalog is hosted on the local SSD drive.
I manually copy all folders(images) to my laptop and primary HDD as soon as I finish a shoot. I move old folders to HDD using LR. This makes sure, metadata is not lost and I can review my old images when I attach my HDD to the laptop.
** Backup Strategy **
Both my HDDs are mirrored copies. I use a custom script (written by me) to mirror my primary HDD to Secondary. I have scheduled this script to run frequently (using windows task scheduler) . So practically, as soon as both the HDD are connected to the laptop, this script detects it and starts mirroring. This is an automatic background procedure. This makes sure, I do not have to remember to mirror my HDDs manually.
I use only OFFLINE backups. No ONLINE backups.
iamsomnath
Where is the remote?
Apart from the workflow which is similar to Ankur , I also keep one copy at my office, for the necessity of actual physical separation. I also use a paid software called "second copy" for the backups , as I'm quite unable to write my own codes, and I find it to be absolutely brilliant .
Cheers
Somnath
Cheers
Somnath
amitw79
Super User
As of today it stands at nearly 1TB.
So I guess I can do backup from pc to 2tb and mirror it to 4Tb. Planning to use Acronis True Image for backup purpose.
I am still not quite sure how to make use of 1TB hdd I have.
It seems it wont be useful in current backup setup. Maybe I will then hook it up to WIFI router for home media sharing.
Yogesh Sarkar
Administrator
Put the Lightroom catalog on the SSD as well as the scratch disk of Lightroom. Set the backup of Lightroom catalog to happen in your image folder, which you will be regularly backing up to your external drives.
3 backups of data are generally more than enough. However, you can export all your RAW images to JPEG and store them in your 1TB drive and keep it off site if you wish.
3 backups of data are generally more than enough. However, you can export all your RAW images to JPEG and store them in your 1TB drive and keep it off site if you wish.