Part of each year is a subfolder for projects where I keep jpegs of images of travel and other special projects. I also keep a NAS at a second site that has copies of all the files. I also use large NAS drives to keep a cumulative copy of photos with a folder for each year that is synched with the per year external drives. I don’t delete too many photos – the main exception being images from a multiple image sequence of wildlife in motion. Each year has a folder for the year with subfolders for month and then each month has a folder for days with images and days with processed images.
Wayback machine adobe revel portable#
For the current year I carry 2 external portable drives of about 2 terabytes and transfer images to drives daily as taken. I have a very OCD approach to photo backup. I prefer to have my backups local and in a safe deposit box. I personally do NOT like or employ cloud storage as that requires an internet connection AND I do worry about the site going down or being hacked. If HDD #1 dies, I always have HDD #2 immediately available sitting in the enclosure. I will do this hot swap procedure about once a month so if the house burns down, I always have a copy that copy is not more than a month old. I just replace HDD #2 with another HDD and the enclosure automatically copies what is on HDD #1 onto the new HDD #2. This enclosure also allows “hot swapping” so that I can remove HDD #2, while the enclosure is running, put the old HDD into a home safe or safe deposit box for added security. New photos are imported through Lightroom onto HDD #1 and the RAID enclosure automatically copies everything onto HDD #2. I have it set to RAID 1 which means it automatically copies whatever is on HDD #1 (the drive that shows up on your desktop) onto HDD #2. This enclosure is the external drive where I store ALL of my photos as well as the Lightroom Catalog backup.
I have a CRU RTX223-QR3 enclosure (there are many alternatives such as Western Digital) that has two slots for HHD drives. I believe RAID can be much simpler than what you described with standalone cloning or backup software. I do, however, think you have unnecessarily condemned RAID as a backup process. I really appreciate the time you take for your clients. This may be old school thinking but I believe when it comes time to pass those photos along a physical photo album will be seen more often (.even if it is years between views.) and perhaps cherished longer then images on an sd card or computer…and won’t be accidentally over-written. Oh, and by the way, about possible disasters…periodically we will have our most cherished photos (.family, loved ones etc.) printed and add them to an actual photo albums. I would also suggest installing a drive health app or program that may give you a heads-up if your drives are starting to fail. This gives me two sets of backups with worst case being the loss of up to a month. Also, once per month (…more if doing lots of work.) will make an additional copy of the drives on another set of external drives.
Wayback machine adobe revel update#
It will update a full copy of my drives (.my system has two drives…) daily on separate drives…have it set for once a day near the time I typically shut the computer down. My at home solution is a program called ‘SuperDuper!’ which I really like…set it up and forget about it.
And before anyone warns about some possible disasters, am not a pro…if a disaster was to hit I would likely have bigger issues to worry about. Several years ago I had my never backed up drive die…talk about heart-wrenching! I don’t like the nickel-and-diming of all these cloud and/or subscription services so prefer keeping everything at home. Wow, now that I put this into writing it sounds way too complicated, might have to rethink this plan.
I only update the external drives once a week so at any given time I have 1 current backup of the c drive, 1 that is a week old and one that is 2 weeks old + 2 ssd drives that are drive clones of c, 1 current external drive that is current with the data and one that is a week old, 1 external drive with a backup of the internal drive that has backups of my data and pictures. I have 8 external HD’s 2 with full backups of the C drive – using Acronis, 2 solid state drives with a clone of the C drive, 1 full backup of the data drive, 2 external drives with a backup of my pictures. D drive only my personal data, another drive with only my photos on it with the LR catalog and pics in a separate folder, last internal drive is just one folder each for a backup of the pictures drive and another for the data drive. c drive has only the operating system (plus a few things my computer decides to place there). I have a desktop with 4 internal hard drives.
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