Backup - The Misssing Link
Jun 29, 2016 11:39:06 #
I always rant here about the necessity for a defense in depth backup solutionMy main photo directory was located in My Documents, and I used a Microsoft utility called Synchtoy to perform scheduled mass copies of the Photo directory to C:\Dropbox, which used to work. Now, I discovered that this scheme was not functional. The solution was to move my Lightroom catalog to the Dropbox folder. So simple it was staring me in the face for years. Now, photos are backed up daily to a NAS, continuously via Dropbox to the cloud.
Simple
Simple
Jun 29, 2016 12:12:34 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
I always rant here about the necessity for a defe... (show quote)
One could also place files wherever they wish and back up manually, so avoiding all confusion. Simple.
Jun 29, 2016 13:52:38 #
Manual backup is just asking for your HD to crash right after you've taken that Pulitzer Prize winning photograph and before you've initiated the backup.
Jun 29, 2016 15:40:25 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Manual backup is just asking for your HD to crash right after you've taken that Pulitzer Prize winning photograph and before you've initiated the backup.
For sure a hard drive will never crash at an opportune moment. I try to avoid that scenario by never reformatting my memory card until I have at least two backups, usually three.
Jun 30, 2016 07:16:08 #
Windows 10 has a very good backup program that runs in the background.
Jun 30, 2016 10:17:28 #
jackpi
Loc: Southwest Ohio
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
I always rant here about the necessity for a defe... (show quote)
Your post confuses me. 1) The catalog doesn't contain photos. 2) Where is the NAS? 3) The cloud you are referring to is a secure storage system (not a NAS) that Dropbox provides to its subscribers via the Dropbox application. Are you using Dropbox to backup both your Lightroom catalog and your photos?
Jun 30, 2016 12:45:34 #
The catalog does not contain photos, but it is the database, contains all your edits etc, which you do not want to loose (hit Reset and see how far back it goes). The NAS, that is connected to my gigabit Ethernet network, is a dual drive bay Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, drives configured to be in RAID 0, mirroring. Data is written to both drives simultaneously, so if one fails, you replace and it is rebuilt from the other. I use Dropbox as secure offsite cloud backup as the second leg of my backup scheme. It is updated in realtime, and gives me the added benefit of being able to access my images from a multiple of devices.
I back up the catalog to the same NAS that the photos are on. And, i do not keep the Photos folder on the NAS because access can be slow at times, and I am impatient. Local hard drive backed up to NAS and Cloud.
I back up the catalog to the same NAS that the photos are on. And, i do not keep the Photos folder on the NAS because access can be slow at times, and I am impatient. Local hard drive backed up to NAS and Cloud.
Jun 30, 2016 13:22:37 #
I believe that RAID 0 configures both drives to make one large one. RAID 1 configures the drives to create two identical ones. Just went thru this with a new G-Technology dual drive unit.
Jun 30, 2016 19:15:16 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
I always rant here about the necessity for a defe... (show quote)
Ever since I found this writing, I just test all my backups against "The Tao of Backup".
http://www.taobackup.com/
No problems since!!
Jul 1, 2016 14:57:07 #
Papacliff wrote:
I believe that RAID 0 configures both drives to make one large one. RAID 1 configures the drives to create two identical ones. Just went thru this with a new G-Technology dual drive unit.
RAID is great -- so long as you don't have an earthquake, fire, flood, theft, etc.
The only safe backup is an off-site backup! I repeat the only safe backup is an off-site backup!
A hassle free way to avoid loss of an image between the time it is captured on your computer and the time you run your daily backup to the off-site facility is to just write your images to a flash drive and keep the flash drive within arms reach until after the backup is run.
Jul 1, 2016 18:50:08 #
[quote=jgitomer]RAID is great -- so long as you don't have an earthquake, fire, flood, theft, etc.
The only safe backup is an off-site backup! I repeat the only safe backup is an off-site backup!
I agree that off-site backup is important. It is also part of my backup strategy, but only as one part of it. To me redundancy is worth the effort.
The only safe backup is an off-site backup! I repeat the only safe backup is an off-site backup!
I agree that off-site backup is important. It is also part of my backup strategy, but only as one part of it. To me redundancy is worth the effort.
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