Comments on: Securely back up your photos without thinking about http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about New Jersey Photographer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:16:38 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: scottwyden http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-409 scottwyden Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:14:46 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-409 Dave, if you are on a Mac there are a lot of great duplicate finding software out there that can help. I have multiple drivers with the same files as well.. That is a good thing. Hard drives fail so easily that multiple copies is ideal. Example being.. I have 2 Drobo's. Both have 4 drives in it with the same files.. That is 8 hard drives that are a copy of the Lightroom Library.. which to me is the only important thing on my computer. My JungleDisk backup is the same. Secure off site backup and 8 hard drives. Can't go wrong! Dave, if you are on a Mac there are a lot of great duplicate finding software out there that can help. I have multiple drivers with the same files as well.. That is a good thing. Hard drives fail so easily that multiple copies is ideal. Example being.. I have 2 Drobo's. Both have 4 drives in it with the same files.. That is 8 hard drives that are a copy of the Lightroom Library.. which to me is the only important thing on my computer. My JungleDisk backup is the same. Secure off site backup and 8 hard drives. Can't go wrong!

]]> By: scottwyden http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-411 scottwyden Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:18:45 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-411 I'm not too familiar with PC backups but I can recommend checking out John Milleker (<a href="http://johnmilleker.com/" rel="nofollow">http://johnmilleker.com/</a>) he uses a PC, is in the IT field.. and is a great photographer. Maybe he can give you some advice more specific to your problem :-) I'm not too familiar with PC backups but I can recommend checking out John Milleker (http://johnmilleker.com/) he uses a PC, is in the IT field.. and is a great photographer. Maybe he can give you some advice more specific to your problem :-)

]]> By: davewolanski http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-410 davewolanski Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:16:53 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-410 nope, PC. Ditto on the images being the most important thing on my drive. Music too, I guess nope, PC. Ditto on the images being the most important thing on my drive. Music too, I guess

]]> By: scottwyden http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-340 scottwyden Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:14:46 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-340 Dave, if you are on a Mac there are a lot of great duplicate finding software out there that can help. I have multiple drivers with the same files as well.. That is a good thing. Hard drives fail so easily that multiple copies is ideal. Example being.. I have 2 Drobo's. Both have 4 drives in it with the same files.. That is 8 hard drives that are a copy of the Lightroom Library.. which to me is the only important thing on my computer. My JungleDisk backup is the same. Secure off site backup and 8 hard drives. Can't go wrong! Dave, if you are on a Mac there are a lot of great duplicate finding software out there that can help. I have multiple drivers with the same files as well.. That is a good thing. Hard drives fail so easily that multiple copies is ideal. Example being.. I have 2 Drobo's. Both have 4 drives in it with the same files.. That is 8 hard drives that are a copy of the Lightroom Library.. which to me is the only important thing on my computer. My JungleDisk backup is the same. Secure off site backup and 8 hard drives. Can't go wrong!

]]> By: davewolanski http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-408 davewolanski Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:09:57 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-408 Any tips for fixing a digital mess? I have multiple external hard drives with multiple copies of files, along with an internal hard drive that has mostly the same files. I'm thinking about using some kind of file duplicate finding software to clean off/consolidate one or more external drives, and then using some kind of back up scheme to have original files on my desktop, a local backup and an offsite backup. I'd like this to be as painless as possible!Alternatively, would it work to use lightroom start a new catalog of my desktop images. Then import all the external hard drive images, but use the "Don't import duplicates" box. Then wipe the external (since all duplicates would be ignored, and the originals saved on the internal) and use the external for a backup? Any tips for fixing a digital mess? I have multiple external hard drives with multiple copies of files, along with an internal hard drive that has mostly the same files. I'm thinking about using some kind of file duplicate finding software to clean off/consolidate one or more external drives, and then using some kind of back up scheme to have original files on my desktop, a local backup and an offsite backup. I'd like this to be as painless as possible!Alternatively, would it work to use lightroom start a new catalog of my desktop images. Then import all the external hard drive images, but use the "Don't import duplicates" box. Then wipe the external (since all duplicates would be ignored, and the originals saved on the internal) and use the external for a backup?

]]> By: davewolanski http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-341 davewolanski Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:16:53 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-341 nope, PC. <br>Ditto on the images being the most important thing on my drive. Music too, I guess nope, PC.
Ditto on the images being the most important thing on my drive. Music too, I guess

]]> By: davewolanski http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-339 davewolanski Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:09:57 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-339 Any tips for fixing a digital mess? I have multiple external hard drives with multiple copies of files, along with an internal hard drive that has mostly the same files. I'm thinking about using some kind of file duplicate finding software to clean off/consolidate one or more external drives, and then using some kind of back up scheme to have original files on my desktop, a local backup and an offsite backup. I'd like this to be as painless as possible!<br><br>Alternatively, would it work to use lightroom start a new catalog of my desktop images. Then import all the external hard drive images, but use the "Don't import duplicates" box. Then wipe the external (since all duplicates would be ignored, and the originals saved on the internal) and use the external for a backup? Any tips for fixing a digital mess? I have multiple external hard drives with multiple copies of files, along with an internal hard drive that has mostly the same files. I'm thinking about using some kind of file duplicate finding software to clean off/consolidate one or more external drives, and then using some kind of back up scheme to have original files on my desktop, a local backup and an offsite backup. I'd like this to be as painless as possible!

Alternatively, would it work to use lightroom start a new catalog of my desktop images. Then import all the external hard drive images, but use the “Don't import duplicates” box. Then wipe the external (since all duplicates would be ignored, and the originals saved on the internal) and use the external for a backup?

]]> By: scottwyden http://scottwyden.com/securely-back-up-your-photos-without-thinking-about/#comment-342 scottwyden Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:18:45 +0000 http://scottwyden.com/?p=3780#comment-342 I'm not too familiar with PC backups but I can recommend checking out John Milleker (<a href="http://johnmilleker.com/" rel="nofollow">http://johnmilleker.com/</a>) he uses a PC, is in the IT field.. and is a great photographer. Maybe he can give you some advice more specific to your problem :-) I'm not too familiar with PC backups but I can recommend checking out John Milleker (http://johnmilleker.com/) he uses a PC, is in the IT field.. and is a great photographer. Maybe he can give you some advice more specific to your problem :-)

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