LR Catalogue Backup
Feb 11, 2014 15:51:59 #
gorgehiker
Loc: Lexington, Ky
I have set my preferences for Lightroom to back up my catalogue every week. Is this an incremental backup or a backup of my entire catalogue every time a backup is performed? My hard drive is getting full and I would like to store the working catalogue on my internal solid state drive and my photos and backup catalogue on an external drive.
Feb 11, 2014 16:00:55 #
gorgehiker wrote:
I have set my preferences for Lightroom to back up my catalogue every week. Is this an incremental backup or a backup of my entire catalogue every time a backup is performed? My hard drive is getting full and I would like to store the working catalogue on my internal solid state drive and my photos and backup catalogue on an external drive.
be sure to make lightroom do it. if you want to lightroom ever to find them again.
If you do not write LR metadata to the files, the Catalog database backup will be the only protection of your editing work; but backing it up does.
Feb 12, 2014 05:33:09 #
sueyeisert
Loc: New Jersey
Each week it's a new complete backup,but you don't have to keep all the backups. Only Keep the last 2 backups.
Feb 12, 2014 07:57:03 #
gorgehiker wrote:
I have set my preferences for Lightroom to back up my catalogue every week. Is this an incremental backup or a backup of my entire catalogue every time a backup is performed? My hard drive is getting full and I would like to store the working catalogue on my internal solid state drive and my photos and backup catalogue on an external drive.
I choose to make my backup routine happen outside LR, because there is more I want to backup than just my photos and catalog. Most backup software simply gives more options for the type of backup I want to do.
Incidentally, I use SyncBackSE. They have a free version that can be downloaded. I've used it for years and it's never failed me.
Feb 12, 2014 08:08:57 #
gorgehiker wrote:
I have set my preferences for Lightroom to back up my catalogue every week. Is this an incremental backup or a backup of my entire catalogue every time a backup is performed? My hard drive is getting full and I would like to store the working catalogue on my internal solid state drive and my photos and backup catalogue on an external drive.
The LR back up is small...the Catalog is small..you shouldn't be filling up a drive with this for sure.
As I see it..there isn't a reason to move the catalog to another drive.
Feb 12, 2014 16:48:17 #
rpavich wrote:
The LR back up is small...the Catalog is small..you shouldn't be filling up a drive with this for sure.
As I see it..there isn't a reason to move the catalog to another drive.
As I see it..there isn't a reason to move the catalog to another drive.
But it makes sense to do the catalog backup to another drive.
Along with backing up the images themselves.
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