On 2011-01-26 06:23 , Eric Weir wrote:
I have a Macbook, backing up wirelessly through a 1T Time Machine to a Time
Capsule. Also a 500G Western Digital USB drive attached to the Time Capsule.
Backups of the Lightroom catalogue go there, and I manually copy my images
there as well.
I'm not comfortable with the way I'm using the 500G USB drive because
everything except the backup of the Lightroom catalogue is done manually. I
also wonder if I should have another drive in my setup. My ears pricked up when
people here started talking about automatic synchronization across multiple
disks. Is that something Time Machine could do, or is it limited to working
with a single disk?
All that said, am I safe enough? Take into consideration that I'm not a pro. I
don't have very many images. Probably just a few thousand. Way less than
10,000. And I really don't have any that are valuable. A few that I like, and
would hate to lose, but nothing that would be a financial loss.
"safe enough" is entirely relative; it sounds like all your backups are
in one place and you do some of them manually -- what would be the
consequences of a mistake or omission of your manual backup? of a flood
or a fire? how much it matters is up to you ... there are lots of options
for myself, i also use Time Machine to a 1TB Time Capsule, but i
actually have it omit my photos and a few other bulky items; instead i:
1) have Aperture backup photos to a FireWire disk as it loads them to
from my SD card to my drive (LR can do this too, i assume)
2) frequently sync my entire system to another backup drive (using
Carbon Copy Cloner)
3) periodically archive things like photos to another hard disk
(eventually this will be rotated to a fireproof/waterproof safe in my
detached garage)
4) back some things up to the free online storage i get from Dreamhost
5) i'm toying with getting an Amazon S3 account and finding a way to
automate certain backups to it (e.g. via rsyncbackup)
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