I'm happy with a 200 gig pocket drive that I make my 3rd backup to,
which I keep in my car in the alley.
A. I have all my master images with me wherever I go. RAW & Jpeg.
B. It's offsite, but only 30 seconds away.
C. Being USB powered, any computer can access it.
D. It's not that expensive. Just have to remember to bring it in and
back up to it once a week or so.
On Jul 1, 2009, at 09:14 , Graydon wrote:
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:59:47AM -0400, John Francis scripsit:
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 06:08:58AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote:
So i finally made it to a Future shop and picked up an external HD
to
use as my LR back up drive.
I managed to get my catalogue backed up, at least i think i have
them
all, it did not ask that question.
Silly question, but: are you sure you've backed up the *images*, as
well as the catalogue? It's best to be sure that you have done that
before you actually delete any of the images from the disk.
Also note -- one copy is not a backup.
You need a minimum of three copies on three different drives, one of
which is somewhere else, before you can possibly call it a backup.
Bear in mind, too, that if you've only got the images copied to one
external drive, then as soon as you delete them from your hard drive
you no longer have a backup of those images. If your external drive
goes bad you've lost those images for ever. You should really get a
second external drive as well, and keep a redundant copy.
_two_ redundant copies.
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
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