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Ive decided to add an external SSD to my iMac to keep my LR, Catalogue and current years photos on and noticed that the Crucial SSD drives are a lot cheaper than the likes of Samsung etc, I wondered if anybody had any experience of the Crucial drives. I know I would need to add an enclosure or dock but it still works out a lot less than the competition. For security I plan on keeping a backup on a WD Passport External Drive.
I have always been a little blasé about backups (mainly down to lack of knowledge etc) have decided I need to change this attitude before something goes wrong. I also wondered what workflow people followed.
My current plans are as follows. Does this make any sense?
All archive files will be kept on a separate external drive with a backup kept on a dual drive NAS (set-up with Raid0 - Mirroring). Images imported to External SSD with 2nd copy going to the NAS. I will also Clone the external drive to a 2nd external drive once a month. I am also looking into options for storing Raw files in the cloud. I currently have a Keenai account which may come in for that.
Hopefully that should take care of the Raw’s and LR catalogue. As for the finished JPEG’s my current workflow, means than completed images get exported from LR and into Photos (which lives on the internal drive) and also into Flickr for sharing. Based on this I have 2 backups in the cloud. My Mac is also backed up using TimeMachine and I am also thinking that when I clone the external drive, I will also clone the internal.
So by my current thinking this would give me the following backups:
Raw files/Catalogue - 1 Physical backup + 1 Cloud backup (+ original)
JPEGs - 1 Physical + 2 Cloud backups (+ original)
Am I missing something? All feedback and thoughts are welcome.
Many thanks
Chris
I have always been a little blasé about backups (mainly down to lack of knowledge etc) have decided I need to change this attitude before something goes wrong. I also wondered what workflow people followed.
My current plans are as follows. Does this make any sense?
All archive files will be kept on a separate external drive with a backup kept on a dual drive NAS (set-up with Raid0 - Mirroring). Images imported to External SSD with 2nd copy going to the NAS. I will also Clone the external drive to a 2nd external drive once a month. I am also looking into options for storing Raw files in the cloud. I currently have a Keenai account which may come in for that.
Hopefully that should take care of the Raw’s and LR catalogue. As for the finished JPEG’s my current workflow, means than completed images get exported from LR and into Photos (which lives on the internal drive) and also into Flickr for sharing. Based on this I have 2 backups in the cloud. My Mac is also backed up using TimeMachine and I am also thinking that when I clone the external drive, I will also clone the internal.
So by my current thinking this would give me the following backups:
Raw files/Catalogue - 1 Physical backup + 1 Cloud backup (+ original)
JPEGs - 1 Physical + 2 Cloud backups (+ original)
Am I missing something? All feedback and thoughts are welcome.
Many thanks
Chris