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Benjamin Trevor

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In Podcast 61 you guys talked about the importance of backup.

I've got a 1 tera byte drive I keep my lightroom and photo shop files on and I have a second I back up to when importing from my cards into Lightroom (LR also uses that seperate drive to perfrom it's own catalog back ups to).

Anyway, as far as system backups… Kerry, I'm sure David will do the default "refer to Senior Garrison" here becuase I'm on Vista, what back up software to you recomend?

I've got the "C" drive that has all the O/S, programs, and some working image files.

The "L"drive that has my light room catalogs and photoshop files on it

The "M" drive that is the "back up" drive.

I have Norton 360 but I'm not fan. I can't tell if it's backing up everything it should…etc, etc.

And David Laugh , when I switch to Mac I assume Time Machine is the backup of choice?

Thanks guys.

Ben

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KerryG

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As an old IT guy I use a program from MS called Robocopy. It is a command line utility that is a copy program on steriods. What I love about it is that it only copies new or changed files. In trying to find a link to it, I found there is a GUI for it now as well that includes the app. The command line tool is now included in Windows 7 and will work with multiple threads. You can learn more about Robocopy here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/e…..light.aspx

Kerry Garrison Camera Dojo Publisher http://kerrygarrison.com

desquire

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Hey BT,

You took the words right out of my mouth for Senor Garrison… LOL! But I can tell you that he had me using Robocopy for a while when I was on PC & it worked seamlessly.

On my Mac Pro, I'm using "Smart Backup" – which is a pretty decent program. The only thing that I don't like are the index files that it creates on my hard drive. They suck up a great deal of space, but the solid redundancy of the program is pretty sweet.

Also, I've been told from a good friend of mine that Time Machine isn't good for a true backup of your files. There are some inherent issues in it & not very dependable for something as sensitive as what we deal with.

Cheers!

David Esquire
Esquire Photography
www.esquirephotography.com
david@esquirephotography.com

bartlillie

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Ben…

We're on a Mac with a TM, but we also have a simple external 1TB drive. Plus, we backup our raw images on a wolverine after the shoot, then on DVD at the local bank safety deposit box. (Hey, they gave us one free with the business, so why not?)

As our business grows, we're going to be looking more seriously into a drobo or similar device, like RAIDs or something like that. What do you call them?

Bart

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