On Jan 27, 2011, at 1:36 PM, steve harley wrote: >> 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.
To be honest, my so-called "work flow" -- it doesn't "flow" very smoothly at this point -- is still in the process of development. First thing I do after importing is go through and deleted any obviously worthless images. That's what I meant by "initial delete." I'm going to add another drive. I'll look into the financial feasibility of replacing the one USB drive with two FireWire drives. >> 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 Thanks for introducing me to Carbon Copy Cleaner. I'd never heard of it before. I've only installed it, but it looks like I'll be able to use it to create a simple reasonably safe backup system. One question right now. With my Time Machine/Time Capsule plus two other external drives, would it be feasible to backup content files, e.g., photo images and other content excluded from the Time Machine backups, and image the hard drive on my MacBook, especially the operating system and applications directories, to the same external drives? Currently I'm using only a tiny fraction of the storage capacity on my 1T Time Capsule and 500G USB drive. I don't see myself creating enough images in the next year or two to significantly increase my storage capacity needs. Thanks again, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
