On Feb 20, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Thibouille wrote: > 2007/2/20, Rob Brigham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Like I said, different needs. My shots are all for me and sequential >> ordering is perfect for my family shots as it keeps them in date >> sequence. I take probably 1000 shots in a year on average, maybe >> 2000 >> at most. I no longer back up to DVD with a view to later >> retrieval due >> to the instability of the format and the cheapness of external >> HDDs - I >> use two 500Gb External Hard Drives (one kept at home, one at work) to >> backup all the content on my PC periodically and the structure >> mirrors >> exactly that on the PC which is: >> > > Rob, you speaking about DVD backup makes me think about something.... > What if I have a nice indexed library under Lightroom and that I lose > it (let's say, hard disk crash). Sure I can get my PEFs and DNGs from > DVD back but what about the index?
Lightroom can look at different library source locations and has facilities to create a backup library automatically. I backup the Lightroom library to an external hard drive. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
