On 2011-01-27 08:11 , Eric Weir wrote:
On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:11 PM, steve harley wrote:
1) have Aperture backup photos to a FireWire disk as it load them to from my SD
card to my drive (LR can do this too, i assume)
I'm rarely hardware connected to the other drive. I backup to it manually via
Wi-Fi. That's almost prohibitively slow already, and will be soon. My thought
is to do a hardware-connected backup of images after doing the initial delete
of imported images.
sounds reasonable (not sure what an "initial delete" is) -- i'm usually
at my desk when i import images (because then my laptop is also
connected to my external display), and on my desk i have a FireWire
cable ready to connect the drives into the laptop; backing up while
importing makes it very convenient -- just launch Aperture, pop the SD
card into the computer, click import, (do something else while
importing), click eject when done
Sounds like I need to get another USB drive in there to duplicate what's on
that drive. I wonder if there's a way all that could be done automatically once
I connect to the drives via USB.
getting something to happen "on drive mount" is possible but too fussy
for me; you could do it with Carbon Copy Cloner with a few clicks,
though, and it would only have to copy over whatever had changed; or you
could have CCC do it overnight automatically
While I'm at it, what's the advantage of FireWire over USB?
most important for me is that FireWire is easy to chain without needing
hubs; FireWire 800 is significantly faster than USB 2, too, and my
overnight syncs can take a while
2) frequently sync my entire system to another backup drive (using Carbon Copy
Cloner)
Are you talking about just what's on the hard drive on your machine, or all of
it inclusive of what's on your backup drives? And what does this add, besides
another backup, to what Time Machine does?
yes just my machine; what it does is give me something i could boot from
immediately, with my entire environment completely configured, whereas
with Time Machine i'd have to do a lengthy recovery process before i
could work again if my main drive failed; it's also just my habit, from
before i had Time Machine to work with
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