Comments on: Friday Video Tip - Backup to another drive

By: Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:18:23 +0000

Sorry forgot to mention the program name its SyncToy here is the link:
http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/friday-video-tip-backup-to-another-drive-2/#comment-52204

By: Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:15:14 +0000

Hi Matt
Great stuff on back up, here is something I only found recently. It’s for paranoid folks like me, who like to keep a duplicate file containing all my photos on a separate drive. This programme free from Microsoft syncs the duplicate folders and I use it in addition to regular back ups of all my drives. It’s what we in the UK call belt and braces approach, where the wonderful people in the US might say belt and suspenders. Thanks again for the great tips excellent stuff on HDR this week.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:45:54 +0000

Matt
Another great and timely tip. I have spent about 4 hours trying to figure this out. I now know several of these drop boxes very well.

Again a sincere thank you!!

Curtis

By: Finn Hansson

Finn Hansson — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:59:32 +0000

Hi Matt,

Another quick question. As a side-remark you say you allways turn off the ‘Test integrity of this catalog’ in this video - why do you turn it off?

Great videos - keep them comming!
Finn Hansson

By: Randy Bynon

Randy Bynon — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:50:02 +0000

Hi Matt! Quick question. I sometimes bring images into Lightroom on my laptop and then later want to put them on my desktop. Is there an easy way to sync two different sets of images or do I just have to ALSO import them to the desktop? What about syncing any changes I made in my laptop Lightroom so that those changes are reflected in my desktop copy?

Thanks

Randy

By: Olli

Olli — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:37:16 +0000

I’m using this quite a time - i think, it can “save a life”

By: Michael J. Titera

Michael J. Titera — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:07:48 +0000

Hi Matt,

I liked the little commericial prior to the clip. But you need to put a link to your book on the front page of LightroomKillerTips.com. Just put up a thumbnail of your book and the appropriate links under it. That way we can find and easily purchase your great book.

Keep up the great work,

Michael J. Titera

By: lvthunder

lvthunder — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:45:42 +0000

Is there a way to get Lightroom to just do the backup and not ask me? That way I launch Lightroom it does the backup then launches without me having to click backup.

By: Scott Jones

Scott Jones — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:39:44 +0000

Another thought is that even if you do not regularly back up your catalog separate from a full computer back up to HD, it is a useful move to be sure that your LR catalog bckups are to a different internal disc on your machine than the program itself (some laptops do have two HDs). That way if one internal HD dies, then you can recover from the other HD either by having the program itself intact with the current catalog or with a backed up catalog on the other drive.

Also in response to some of the comments above, one of the great benefits to storing all images in DNG format is that you can directly write all of the LR changes directly into the file, so even with a crash of LR, reimportation will resurrect at least all the changes you made to your images. Of course the other things in your catalog won’t be there…

Cheers

http://www.ScottJonesPhoto.com

By: TommyR

TommyR — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:57:53 +0000

Hey,

What I do is that I backup my catalog to the same place here I have my images that I backup. So everytime I back up my images, to 2 or 3 places, I will always grab the catalog aswell.

And Thats how I do it, if it makes sance!