I pretty much follow the system Terry follows, but my back up regime
differs. I am very fortunate that prior to Covid shutdown, a friend in
the Linux Users of Victoria (Australia), spent a lot of time with me
modifying and testing scripts that he created for his brother's medical
practice.
My working directory is on my SSD, and I have a RAID1 pair of disks for
storage once the work is done. I also have a 3Tb external hard drive
plugged in. As soon as my system detects activity in my working
directory it starts copying the RAW files to my external drive. So I
have two copies until my work is done, at which point I move my RAW
files from my SSD to a RAW files folder on my RAID. Then my system
detects that the RAW files are now safe and deletes them from the
External Hard drive (bear in mind no sidecar files are associated with
that set of RAW files).
So with all of this belt and braces thing going on, it would be too much
to expect DT to keep track. So I do not use the cataloging process of
DT, but I understand that it is pretty clever if you just want to dump
all of your images to one folder (which of course, can be backed up)
Bruce Williams explains that process very nicely in his excellent series
of videos on YouTube.
Understanding Darktable
Cheers
Andrew Greig
On 24/6/20 2:57 pm, Jason Polak wrote:
I agree with the below. My system is pretty simple: one folder for each
year, and then each folder named yyyy-mm-dd-description, one for each
day in the year folders. I do try and use keywords in darktable though,
but I am kind of lazy with regards to that :( :(
I use an rsync script to back up all my folders to various external hard
drives.
Jason
On 6/23/20 9:39 PM, Terry Pinfold wrote:
Hi Tony,
Guillermo has given a very complete answer here. Could I suggest
that DT is a great editing program. It is not such a great cataloging
program. I would copy the images from the SD card to a suitable folder
on your computer without involving DT. I would then open DT and use the
import function to let DT find the images you have placed in that
folder. Then let DT do what it does best, which is editing. I would
never use DT in its current form as a catalog system, but others might
have a different point of view about that.
Good luck.
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