I have a 2016 MacBook Pro. I use Lightroom Classic and my pictures are currently stored on my hard drive and backed up in iCloud. I am about to move my catalog to a 4 TB external hard drive to free up my laptop hard drive. Since I previously had a house fire that destroyed my computer and backups, I still want to maintain a backup of my catalog in the cloud that will include all my metadata, keywords, folders, etc. Since I pay a monthly subscription to Adobe for my Lightroom and photoshop, and currently pay for 1 TB of storage through Creative Cloud, I spent about 45 minutes in a chat with Adobe to confirm that my entire catalog data would be saved and not just my photos. It appears that only photos would be saved and all processing and folder information would be lost. Please advise me on the best online storage options that would allow me to recreate my Lightroom Catalog in the unlikely event of an external hard drive crash or destruction of my external hard drive.

I have a 2016 MacBook Pro. I use Lightroom Classic and my pictures are currently stored on my hard drive and backed up in iCloud. I am about to move my catalog to a 4 TB external hard drive to free up my laptop hard drive. Since I previously had a house fire that destroyed my computer and backups, I still want to maintain a backup of my catalog in the cloud that will include all my metadata, keywords, folders, etc. Since I pay a monthly subscription to Adobe for my Lightroom and photoshop, and currently pay for 1 TB of storage through Creative Cloud, I spent about 45 minutes in a chat with Adobe to confirm that my entire catalog data would be saved and not just my photos. It appears that only photos would be saved and all processing and folder information would be lost. Please advise me on the best online storage options that would allow me to recreate my Lightroom Catalog in the unlikely event of an external hard drive crash or destruction of my external hard drive.

I want to throw this in there. I am sure others will mention it also. I moved all my photos and catalog to an external from my laptop and found that everything slowed down dramatically. What I found is the best way to handle this is leave the catalog file on the laptop. It does not take up much space. It will allow Lightroom to run much faster. Only move the image files to an external. You can then direct your catalog file back ups to the external but the working catalog file needs to be in the same drive as the Lightroom file for best performance.

I have a 2016 MacBook Pro. I use Lightroom Classic and my pictures are currently stored on my hard drive and backed up in iCloud. I am about to move my catalog to a 4 TB external hard drive to free up my laptop hard drive. Since I previously had a house fire that destroyed my computer and backups, I still want to maintain a backup of my catalog in the cloud that will include all my metadata, keywords, folders, etc. Since I pay a monthly subscription to Adobe for my Lightroom and photoshop, and currently pay for 1 TB of storage through Creative Cloud, I spent about 45 minutes in a chat with Adobe to confirm that my entire catalog data would be saved and not just my photos. It appears that only photos would be saved and all processing and folder information would be lost. Please advise me on the best online storage options that would allow me to recreate my Lightroom Catalog in the unlikely event of an external hard drive crash or destruction of my external hard drive.